Tortur — meaning in English

English meaning

• ordeal noun A very difficult, painful, or exhausting experience.
• torture noun The deliberate infliction of severe pain, especially to punish someone or force information out of them.

Senses

Tortur is used for these senses in English:

• torture The infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.
• torture (in figurative or extended use) An unpleasant sensation or its infliction: embarrassment, heartache, etc.

ordeal — full definition

1. noun A very difficult, painful, or exhausting experience.
2. noun Historically, a trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous physical test, the outcome believed to reveal guilt or innocence by divine judgment.

torture — full definition

1. noun The deliberate infliction of severe pain, especially to punish someone or force information out of them.
2. noun Severe mental or physical suffering.
3. verb To deliberately inflict severe pain on someone, often to punish or extract information.

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