Definition of Torture
to purposefully cause or do harm or hurt to someone
Examples of Torture in a sentence
Beneath the demented psychopathβs 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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