torture
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/ˈtɔːrtʃər/
🇬🇧
/ˈtɔːtʃə(r)/
noun
C1
causing severe pain to punish or force someone
The use of torture to get information is illegal.
C1
great mental or physical suffering
Waiting for the test results was torture.
verb
C1
to cause severe pain to punish or force someone
They threatened to torture him if he didn't talk.
C1
to make someone feel very unhappy or worried
The guilt continued to torture him for years.
translation
causing severe pain to punish or force someone; great mental or physical suffering
to cause severe pain to punish or force someone; to make someone feel very unhappy or worried
Word Forms
3rd Present
tortures
Progressive
torturing
Past
tortured
Perfect
tortured
Plural
tortures