1. torture - Noun
2. torture - Verb
Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.
The act or process of torturing.
To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.
To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.
To keep on the stretch, as a bow.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible Source: Internet
it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession Source: Internet
Abroad, Article 3 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture — to which South Korea is a party — states from extraditing someone “where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture.” Source: Internet
14,474 cases are classified by different methods of torture, according to Tong (Falun Gong agencies document over 63,000 individual cases of torture). Source: Internet
3. An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture. Source: Internet
A 2006 BBC poll held in 25 nations gauged support for each of the following positions: citation *Terrorists pose such an extreme threat that governments should be allowed to use some degree of torture if it may gain information that saves innocent lives. Source: Internet