torture
英['tɔːtʃə]
美['tɔrtʃɚ]
- vt. 折磨;拷问;歪曲
- n. 折磨;拷问;歪曲
英英释意
- 1. extreme mental distress
- 2. unbearable physical pain
- 3. intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain;
- "an agony of doubt"
- "the torments of the damned"
- 4. the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- 5. the act of torturing someone;
- "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"