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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