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Deliberately Inflict Severe Pain For Some Purpose Crossword Clue

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noun

• extreme mental distress

• unbearable physical pain

• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

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

• the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason

verb

• torment emotionally or mentally

• subject to torture

38%4Inflict severe pain or punishment
verb

• beat severely with a whip or rod

• beat with a cane

38%14 Acts that inflict severe pain or suffering
noun

• the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner

• the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously

• an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities

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