torturing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: torturing	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for torturing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
torturing adj extremely painful [syn: agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome] n 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" Synonym(s): torture, torturing
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Torture \Tor"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tortured} ([?]; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. {Torturing.}] [Cf. F. Torturer. ] 1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex. 2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person. --Shak. 3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. --Jar. Taylor. 4. To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Obs.] The bow tortureth the string. --Bacon.