TORTURING Synonyms

• torment emotionally or mentally

• subject to torture

• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

• a state of acute pain

• extreme mental distress

• extreme distress of body or mind

• suffer great pains or distress

• cause emotional anguish or make miserable

• a change for the worse

• a shape resulting from distortion

• an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image

• a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal)

• the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

• the mistake of misrepresenting the facts

• the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

• rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton

• the destruction or collapse of something

• an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims

• a support for displaying ot holding various articles

• a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body

• a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately

• go at a rack

• stretch to the limits

• put on a rack and pinion

• obtain by coercion or intimidation

• run before a gale

• fly in high wind

• draw off from the lees

• torment emotionally or mentally

• work on a rack

• seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block

• place in a rack

• torture on the rack

• an intense or violent exertion

• the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

• taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance

• the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

• the act of rotating rapidly

• marked by repeated turns and bends