Synonyms for Torture:

n.
- do someone wrong
- grind down
- hit out
- kick around
- reject
- shove around
- trample
- EINA
- neuralgia
- reward
- depress
- devastate
- dismay
- hang over
- happy
• anguish
- hurtings
• bad time
- bad-time
- goingover
- grillings
• cruelty
- Masochisms
- bloodthirstinesses
- brutishnesses
- callousnesses
- fiendishnesses
- hard heartedness
- hard heartednesses
- hard-heartednesses
- hardheartednesses
- heartlessnesses
- in humanities
- in humanity
- in sensibilities
- in sensibility
- in sensitiveness
- in sensitivenesses
- in-humanities
- in-humanity
- in-sensibilities
- in-sensibility
- in-sensitiveness
- in-sensitivenesses
- insensitivenesses
- mercilessnesses
- murderousnesses
- ruthlessnesses
- savagenesses
- un feelingness
- un feelingnesses
- un kindness
- un kindnesses
- un-feelingness
- un-feelingnesses
- un-kindness
- un-kindnesses
- unfeelingnesses
- unkindnesses
• desperation
- de solation
- de solations
- de-solation
- de-solations
- dis comfort
- dis comforts
- dis traction
- dis tractions
- dis-comfort
- dis-comforts
- dis-traction
- dis-tractions
- disconsolatenesses
- un happiness
- un happinesses
- un-happiness
- un-happinesses
• distortion
- co loring
- co lorings
- co-loring
- co-lorings
- in torsion
- in torsions
- in-torsion
- in-torsions
- intorsions
- malconformations
- mis interpretation
- mis interpretations
- mis representation
- mis representations
- mis statement
- mis statements
- mis-interpretation
- mis-interpretations
- mis-representation
- mis-representations
- mis-statements
- tall stories
- twistednesses
• distress
- dis appointment
- dis appointments
- dis quietude
- dis quietudes
- dis tress
- dis tresses
- dis-appointment
- dis-appointments
- dis-quietude
- dis-quietudes
- dis-tress
- dis-tresses
- head-ache
- unconsolabilities
- worriments
• grief
- be moaning
- be wailing
- be-moaning
- be-wailing
- bemoanings
- bewailings
- deplorings
- in felicities
- in felicity
- in-felicities
- in-felicity
- lamentings
- re morse
- re morses
- re pining
- re-morse
- re-morses
- re-pining
- repinings
• heartache
- broken hearts
• living hell
- everlasting fires
- fire brimstone
- gehennas
- hadeses
- hell fires
- hell-fires
- hellfires
- living-hell
- lower worlds
- place torment
- tortures damned
- tortures of damned
- tortures the damned
- under world
- under worlds
- under-world
- under-worlds
• martyrdom
- self-immolation
- self-sacrifice
- unselfishness
• misery
- anvil choru
• pain
- Back Ache
- Migraine
- ache
- affliction
- bite
- bruise
- burn
- chafing
- cramp
- crick
- discomfort
- earache
- gripe
- inflammation
- infliction
- injury
- irritation
- malaise
- painfulness
- pang
- rack
- smarting
- sore
- spasm
- stab
- sting
- stitch
- throb
- throe
- wrench
• painfulness
- acuteness
- aggravation
- annoyingness
- arduousness
- bitterness
- distressfulness
- grievousness
- hurtfulness
- irksomeness
- odiousness
- offensiveness
- oppressiveness
- soreness
- uncomfortableness
- unpleasantness
- woefulness
• penalty
- punishment
• punishment
- castigation
- chastisement
- confinement
- correction
- execution
- forfeiture
- imprisonment
- incarceration
- judgment
- payment
- penalty
- price
- reprisal
- retribution
- revenge
- verdict
• severe mental or physical pain
- third degree
• torture
- Torturing.
• trauma
- traumatization
• violence
- abuse
- assault
- atrocity
- attack
- barbarity
- brawl
- broil
- brutality
- commotion
- destructiveness
- fierceness
- fight
- fracas
- frenzy
- fury
- insurrection
- intensity
- outrage
- rage
- terrorism
- thuggery
- turmoil
- uproar
- vandalism
- vehemence
- violence
- wildness
v.
• afflict
- be sets
- be setting
- be-set
- be-sets
- be-setting
• agonize
- ate heart out
- eating heart out
- eats heart out
- sang blues
- sang the blues
- sing blues
- singing blues
- sings blues
- sings the blues
- stewed over
- stewing over
- stews over
- sung blues
- sung the blues
- take badly
- takes badly
- takes it badly
- taking badly
- taking it badly
- took badly
- took it badly
• bully
- Over-bearing
- buffaloing
- co wed
- co wing
- co-wed
- co-wing
- despotized
- despotizes
- despotizing
- leaned on
- leans on
- leant on
- over bear
- over bearing
- over bears
- over bore
- over born
- over borne
- over-bears
- over-bore
- over-born
- over-borne
- overbore
- overborn
- rid roughshod
- rides roughshod
- riding roughshod
- rode roughshod
- showboated
- turn heat
- turn on heat
- turn the heat
- turned heat
- turned on heat
- turned on the heat
- turned the heat
- turning heat
- turning on heat
- turning on the heat
- turning the heat
- turns heat
- turns on heat
- turns on the heat
- turns the heat
- walked heavy
- walking heavy
- walks heavy
• contort
- DE Form
- de formed
- de forming
- de forms
- de-form
- de-formed
- de-forming
- de-forms
- mis shape
- mis shaped
- mis shapen
- mis shapes
- mis shaping
- mis-shape
- mis-shaped
- mis-shapes
- mis-shaping
• crucify
- be devil
- be deviled
- be deviling
- be devilled
- be devilling
- be devils
- be-devil
- be-deviled
- be-deviling
- be-devilled
- be-devilling
- be-devils
- ill treat
- tare pieces
- tare to pieces
- tear pieces
- tearing pieces
- tearing to pieces
- tears pieces
- tears to pieces
- tore pieces
- tore to pieces
- torn pieces
- wipe floor with
- wiped floor with
- wiped the floor with
- wipes floor with
- wipes the floor with
- wiping floor with
- wiping the floor with
• distort
- be lied
- be lying
- be-lied
- be-lying
- de cline
- de clines
- de-cline
- de-clines
- dis figure
- dis figured
- dis figures
- dis figuring
- dis tort
- dis torts
- dis-figure
- dis-figured
- dis-figures
- dis-figuring
- dis-tort
- dis-torts
- made out like
- makes out like
- making out like
- mis construe
- mis construed
- mis construes
- mis construing
- mis interpret
- mis interpreted
- mis interpreting
- mis interprets
- mis represent
- mis represented
- mis representing
- mis represents
- mis-construe
- mis-construed
- mis-construes
- mis-construing
- mis-interpret
- mis-interpreted
- mis-interpreting
- mis-interprets
- mis-represent
- mis-represented
- mis-representing
- mis-represents
- phonied up
- phonies up
- phonying up
- puts one on
- trumping up
- trumps up
• distress
- am case
- am on case
- am on one case
- am on one's case
- am on ones case
- am one case
- am one's case
- am ones case
- are case
- are on case
- are on one case
- are on one's case
- are on ones case
- are one case
- are one's case
- are ones case
- art case
- art one's case
- art ones case
- be case
- be on case
- be on one case
- be on ones case
- be one case
- be one's case
- be ones case
- being case
- being on case
- being on one case
- being on one's case
- being on ones case
- being one case
- being one's case
- being ones case
- burns up
- burnt up
- de press
- de pressed
- de presses
- de pressing
- de solate
- de solated
- de solates
- de solating
- de-press
- de-pressed
- de-presses
- de-pressing
- de-solate
- de-solated
- de-solates
- de-solating
- did a number on
- did number on
- didst a number on
- didst number on
- dis quiet
- dis quieted
- dis quieting
- dis quiets
- dis tressed
- dis-quiet
- dis-quieted
- dis-quieting
- dis-quiets
- dis-tressed
- does a number on
- does number on
- doest a number on
- doest number on
- doeth a number on
- doeth number on
- doing a number on
- doing number on
- dost a number on
- dost number on
- doth a number on
- doth number on
- gat to
- gave a hard time
- gave hard time
- give hard time
- gives a hard time
- gives hard time
- giving a hard time
- giving hard time
- gotten to
- is case
- is on case
- is on one case
- is on one's case
- is on ones case
- is one case
- is one's case
- is ones case
- made it tough for
- made tough for
- make tough for
- makes it tough for
- makes tough for
- making it tough for
- making tough for
- nit pick
- nit picked
- nit picking
- nit picks
- nit-picked
- nit-picks
- picks on
- pushed buttons
- pushes buttons
- pushing buttons
- ticking off
- ticks off
- was case
- was on case
- was on one case
- was on one's case
- was on ones case
- was one case
- was one's case
- was ones case
- wast case
- wast on case
- wast on one case
- wast on one's case
- wast on ones case
- wast one case
- wast one's case
- wast ones case
- were case
- were on case
- were on one case
- were on one's case
- were on ones case
- were one case
- were one's case
- were ones case
- wert case
- wert on case
- wert on one case
- wert on one's case
- wert on ones case
- wert one case
- wert one's case
- wert ones case
• excruciate
- ex cruciate
- ex-cruciate
• hurt
- am sore
- am tender
- are sore
- are tender
- art sore
- art tender
- being sore
- being tender
- cut quick
- cut the quick
- cut to quick
- cuts quick
- cuts the quick
- cuts to quick
- cuts to the quick
- cutting quick
- cutting the quick
- cutting to quick
- cutting to the quick
- did violence
- didst violence
- dis comfit
- dis comfits
- dis commode
- dis commodes
- dis please
- dis pleased
- dis pleases
- dis pleasing
- dis-comfit
- dis-comfits
- dis-commode
- dis-commodes
- dis-please
- dis-pleased
- dis-pleases
- dis-pleasing
- does violence
- doest violence
- doeth violence
- doing violence
- dost violence
- doth violence
- gave no quarter
- gives no quarter
- giving no quarter
- goes for jugular
- going for jugular
- hit where lives
- hits where lives
- hits where one lives
- hitting where lives
- hitting where one lives
- is sore
- is tender
- laid a bad trip on
- laid bad trip on
- lay bad trip on
- laying a bad trip on
- laying bad trip on
- lays a bad trip on
- lays bad trip on
- thumbed nose at
- thumbing nose at
- thumbs nose at
- up sets
- up setting
- up-set
- up-sets
- up-setting
- was tender
- wast sore
- wast tender
- went for jugular
- were sore
- were tender
- wert sore
- wert tender
- works over
- wracked up
- wracking up
- wracks up
- wrought over
- zinged
• injure
- de face
- de faced
- de faces
- de facing
- de-face
- de-faced
- de-faces
- de-facing
- drawing blood
- draws blood
- drew blood
- hacked up
- hacking up
- hacks up
- under mined
- under mining
- under-mined
- under-mining
• nail to a cross
- burn at stake
- burn stake
- burn the stake
- burned at stake
- burned at the stake
- burned stake
- burned the stake
- burning at stake
- burning stake
- burning the stake
- burns at stake
- burns at the stake
- burns stake
- burns the stake
- burnt at stake
- burnt at the stake
- burnt stake
- burnt the stake
- excrutiated
- excrutiates
- excrutiating
- nail a cross
- nail cross
- put death
- put on rack
- put rack
- put the rack
- puts death
- puts on rack
- puts on the rack
- puts rack
- puts the rack
- puts to death
- putting death
- putting on rack
- putting on the rack
- putting rack
- putting the rack
• pain
- smart
- suffer
• punish
- avenge
- burden
- castigate
- chasten
- chastise
- confine
- correct
- discipline
- execute
- fine
- imprison
- incarcerate
- judge
- lambaste
- penalize
- pillory
- reprise
- sentence
Other synonyms:

•

living hell

•

smite

Other relevant words:

• disturb

convulse

• injure

draw blood
hack up

• kill

slaughter

• lacerate

Jagging
serrates
serrating

• limbo

purgatory

• pain

• sweat

be on pins and needles
be on tenterhooks
lose sleep over
stay the course
stayed the course
stick it out
work hard
working hard

• tantalize

keep hanging
lead on
leads on
led on
make mouth water

• worry

• Other relevant words (noun):

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

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Equivalence
- Adjective
  torturing.
- Proper noun, singular
  torturing.
- Noun, singular or mass
  torturing.
Forward Entailment
- Noun, plural
  abuses, sufferings.
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  Abusing.
Reverse Entailment
- Noun, plural
  torturers.
Independent
- Proper noun, singular
  women, Rights, takes, sentences, therapies, tortura.
- Noun, plural
  torment, Bodies, Parties, Countries, Persons, Rights, reports, actions, cases, sentences, beatings, EARS.
- Noun, singular or mass
  cruelty, mistreatment, ordeal, torment.
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  following, supporting, Including.
- Verb, past participle
  broken, made, plucked, Inflicted.
- Verb, base form
  torment.
Other Related
- Adjective
  tortured.
- Proper noun, singular
  tortured.
- Noun, plural
  tortured.
- Noun, singular or mass
  tortured.
- Verb, base form
  mistreatment.

What are the hypernyms for Torture?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
abuse, barbarism, coercion, cruelty, humiliation, inhuman treatment, oppression, persecution, suppression, violence, physical punishment.

What are the opposite words for torture?

Antonyms for the word "torture" include words and phrases like relief, comfort, ease, pleasure, delight, happiness, joy, and serenity. These antonyms signify the opposite of an unpleasant or oppressive experience. Relief suggests a release from pain or anxiety, while comfort refers to a state of physical and emotional ease. Pleasure, delight, and happiness are all states of enjoyment, and joy indicates a more profound feeling of happiness. Finally, serenity refers to a state of peacefulness and tranquility. Words that are diametrically opposed to torture convey feelings and experiences that are rewarding and satisfying, rather than painful and oppressive.

What are the antonyms for Torture?

n.
• comfort
- Secours
- Sympathies
- bed roses
- coziness
- cozinesses
- facility
- plenty
- re laxation
- re laxations
- re lief
- re pose
- re-laxation
- re-laxations
- re-lief
- re-pose
- relaxation
- restfulness
- restfulnesses
- secour
- snugness
- snugnesses
- warmth
- well being
- wellbeing
• good feeling; ease
- comfort
• noun
- assuagement
- delight
- diversion
- enjoyment
- entertainment
- fun
- heaven
- joy
- lark
- paradise
- peace
- pleasure
- rapture
- recreation
- riot
- security
- well-being
• severe mental or physical pain
- alleviation
- contentment
- happiness
- health
- relief
n. pl.
• noun
- fun and games
v.
• comfort
- Remedied
- Succored
- Succoring
- commiserate with
- commiserated with
- commiserates with
- commiserating with
- de light
- de lighted
- de lighting
- de lights
- de-light
- de-lighted
- de-lighting
- de-lights
- grant respite
- granted respite
- granting respite
- grants respite
- in spirit
- in spirited
- in spiriting
- in spirits
- in-spirit
- in-spirited
- in-spiriting
- in-spirits
- lighten burden
- lightened burden
- lightening burden
- lightens burden
- made well
- make well
- makes well
- making well
- put at ease
- put ease
- puts at ease
- puts ease
- putting at ease
- putting ease
- quiet fears
- quieted fears
- quieting fears
- quiets fears
- re animate
- re animated
- re animates
- re animating
- re assure
- re assured
- re assures
- re fresh
- re freshed
- re freshes
- re vitalize
- re vitalized
- re vitalizes
- re vitalizing
- re-animate
- re-animated
- re-animates
- re-animating
- re-assure
- re-assured
- re-assures
- re-assuring
- re-fresh
- re-freshed
- re-freshes
- re-vitalized
- re-vitalizes
- re-vitalizing
- soothe
- sympathize
- up held
- up hold
- up holding
- up holds
- up raise
- up raised
- up raising
- up-held
- up-hold
- up-holding
- up-holds
- up-raise
- up-raised
- up-raises
- up-raising
• noun
- assure
- cocker
- coddle
- dandle
- indulge
- mollycoddle
- pamper
- reassure
• upset or hurt severely
- aid
- alleviate
- appease
- assist
- assuage
- calm
- commend
- cure
- fix
- heal
- help
- make happy
- mend
- please
- protect
- relieve
- repair
Other relevant words:

ease
release

Usage examples for Torture

How strange that a woman like Athena should possess the power of putting such a creature as was Jane Oglander to torture.

"Jane Oglander"

Marie Belloc Lowndes

It would be better to take the punishment than to live in such torture as this.

"The Eye of Dread"

Payne Erskine

I'm going back to the place where I killed my best friend-to give myself up-to imprisonment-I do not know to what-maybe death-but it will end my torture of mind.

"The Eye of Dread"

Payne Erskine

Famous quotes with Torture

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

Victoria Abril
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

Alfred Adler
What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

Tori Amos
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Francis Bacon
Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?

Jennifer Beals

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Synonyms for Torture:

n.

v.

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