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torturing

[ UK /tˈɔːt‍ʃəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɔɹtʃɝɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. extremely painful
NOUN
  1. the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
    it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession

How To Use torturing In A Sentence

  • Presumably, the chief harm to others in torturing animals that are the property of the torturer is psychic. More Fun With Libertarian Animal Rights
  • Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world--the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
  • Not only were they torturing me into a night away from my work, they were doing it with the addition of meatheads like Steven.
  • I still feel this way about a lot of books; I like either nonfiction or stories in blatantly fictional settings - but not the ones that are "realistic" dramas involving self-torturing individuals and their families. A sad day for bananafish
  • Even at his preparatory school, where he was known as a swot of the first water, he had displayed an unhealthy infatuation for that tongue; he loved its cold, lapidary construction; and while other boys played football or cricket, this withered little fellow used to lark about with a note-book, all by himself, torturing sensible South Wind
  • And can you envision a scenario that would not leave behind embittered relatives who would raise their boys to be the future “terrorists” or “insurgents”, battling in guerilla warfare, using suicide bombers, kidnapping and torturing individual Americans, or whatever else they could do to hurt us in the future? Think Progress » “Guantanamo ought to be closed immediately”
  • Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world--the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
  • Ivor Smith was filmed torturing a cat by an animal rights activist.
  • Torturing cats was common in several strands of European culture, as part of rituals of license and disorder.
  • I was lucky: days later the regime began imprisoning and torturing journalists for the same offence I'd committed.
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