Definition of Torture
to purposefully cause or do harm or hurt to someone
Examples of Torture in a sentence
Beneath the demented psychopath’s home, he had built a chamber to torture his victims after he kidnapped them. 🔊
In order to extract vital information from the terrorist, the interrogators both questioned and decided to torture him to get him to talk. 🔊
It was rather common to torture a criminal in the Middle Ages by hanging them by their thumbs for long periods of time or holding fire to their feet. 🔊
Once the world realized that the Nazis did torture the Jewish people during the Holocaust by starving and experimenting on them, the guilty would be tried for war crimes. 🔊
Some unconventional methods have been used to torture prisoners during times of war making this treatment seem inhumane to some people. 🔊
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