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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 | ||||||||
32% | 7 | Wild otter grabbed the man in that place | ||||||
adverb • to that | ||||||||
28% | 4 | A riverbank burrow or den of an otter; or, an old or poetic word for a copse, orchard or wooded hill | ||||||
noun • A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse. • The lair of an animal, especially of an otter. | ||||||||
Wild Otter Runs Round Old City In Distress Crossword Clue
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TORTURE which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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TORTURE
Updated: October 14, 2023
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