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torture    音标拼音: [t'ɔrtʃɚ]
n. 拷打,拷问;折磨;歪曲,曲解
vt. 拷打,拷问;折磨,使痛苦;歪曲,曲解

拷打,拷问;折磨;歪曲,曲解拷打,拷问;折磨,使痛苦;歪曲,曲解

torture
n 1: extreme mental distress [synonym: {anguish}, {torment},
{torture}]
2: unbearable physical pain [synonym: {torture}, {torment}]
3: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain;
"an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" [synonym:
{agony}, {torment}, {torture}]
4: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something
it was not intended to mean [synonym: {distortion},
{overrefinement}, {straining}, {torture}, {twisting}]
5: 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: {torture},
{torturing}]
v 1: torment emotionally or mentally [synonym: {torment}, {torture},
{excruciate}, {rack}]
2: subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell,
according to the Bible" [synonym: {torture}, {excruciate},
{torment}]

torture \tor"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {tortured}
(t[^o]r"t[-u]rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. {tTorturing.}] [Cf. F.
Torturer. ]
1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
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2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture
an accused person. --Shak.
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3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. --Jar.
Taylor.
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4. To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Obs.]
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The bow tortureth the string. --Bacon.
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Torture \Tor"ture\ (t[^o]r"t[-u]r; 135), n. [F., fr. L. tortura,
fr. torquere, tortum, to twist, rack, torture; probably akin
to Gr. tre`pein to turn, G. drechseln to turn on a lathe, and
perhaps to E. queer. Cf. {Contort}, {Distort}, {Extort},
{Retort}, {Tart}, n., {Torch}, {Torment}, {Tortion}, {Tort},
{Trope.}]
1. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony;
torment; as, torture of mind. --Shak.
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Ghastly spasm or racking torture. --Milton.
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2. 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.
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3. The act or process of torturing.
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Torture, which had always been deciared illegal, and
which had recently been declared illegal even by the
servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the
last time in England in the month of May, 1640.
--Macaulay.
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206 Moby Thesaurus words for "torture":
Procrustean bed, abuse, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, agonizingness,
agony, ail, anguish, atrocious pain, bed of Procrustes, befoul,
bewitch, bias, bite, blight, bloody, boot, burn, chafe, claw,
clawing, color, condemn, confinement, contort, convulse, corrupt,
cruciation, crucifixion, crucify, curse, cut, damage, defile,
deprave, desolate, desolateness, desolation, despoil, destroy,
disadvantage, dismember, dismemberment, disserve, distort,
distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by,
doom, draw and quarter, envenom, estrapade, excruciate,
excruciatingness, excruciation, fester, fret, gall, galleys,
garble, get into trouble, get one wrong, get wrong, give pain,
gloss, gnaw, grate, grill, grind, gripe, harass, hard labor, harm,
harrow, heartbreak, heartsickness, hell, hell upon earth, hex,
holocaust, horror, hurt, impair, impale, impalement, imprisonment,
incarceration, infect, inflame, inflict pain, injure, iron heel,
irritate, jailing, jinx, keelhaul, keelhauling, kill by inches,
lacerate, laceration, lancinate, lancination, macerate, maim,
maltreat, mangle, martyr, martyrdom, martyrization, martyrize,
menace, misapply, misapprehend, miscite, misconceive, misconstrue,
misdeem, misdirect, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound,
misinterpret, misjudge, misquote, misread, misrender, misrepresent,
misshape, mistake, mistranslate, mistreat, misunderstand, misuse,
molest, mutilate, nightmare, nip, oppress, outrage, pain, passion,
penal servitude, persecute, persecution, pervert, picket,
picketing, pierce, pinch, play havoc with, play hob with, poison,
pollute, prejudice, prick, prolong the agony, punish, purgatory,
put to torture, rack, railriding, rankle, rasp, rip, rock pile,
rub, savage, scarify, scarpines, scathe, screw, slant, smite,
squeeze, stab, sting, strain, strain the sense, strappado, taint,
tar and feather, tar-and-feathering, the gantlet, threaten,
thumbscrew, torment, tormentingness, torturousness, try, tweak,
twist, twist the words, varnish, violate, warp, wheel, wind, wound,
wreak havoc on, wrench, wring, wrong

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  • Torture | OHCHR
    The eradication of torture worldwide was one of the major commitments taken up by the United Nations only a few years after its establishment UN Human Rights takes part in this commitment by supporting the work of the Special Rapporteur on torture, the Committee against Torture, and the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
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    Each State Party shall ensure that education and information regarding the prohibition against torture are fully included in the training of law enforcement personnel, civil or military, medical personnel, public officials and other persons who may be involved in the custody, interrogation or treatment of any individual subjected to any form of
  • Torture - Human Rights Watch
    The prohibition against torture is a bedrock principle of international law Torture, as well as cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, is banned at all times, in all places, including in times of
  • Special Rapporteur on torture | OHCHR
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    The 22-page report, “‘They Threw Me in the Water and Beat Me’: The Need for Accountability for Torture in Rwanda,” documents torture and ill-treatment by prison officials and detainees in
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    The Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT) is a new kind of treaty body in the United Nations human rights system It has a preventive mandate focused on a proactive approach to preventing torture and ill treatment
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  • USA and Torture: A History of Hypocrisy | Human Rights Watch
    Human Rights Watch’s 2011 report Getting Away with Torture details the numerous times US courts found that waterboarding, or variations of it, constitutes torture and is a war crime Examples
  • Ukraine: Russian Torture Center in Kherson - Human Rights Watch
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