| (n.) | Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind. | |
| (n.) | Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel. | |
| (n.) | The act or process of torturing. | |
| (v. t.) | To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex. | |
| (v. t.) | To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person. | |
| (v. t.) | To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. | |
| (v. t.) | To keep on the stretch, as a bow. |
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