waterboarding
Speech parts
1. waterboarding - Noun
2. waterboarding - Verb
Meaning
waterboarding (usually uncountable, plural waterboardings)
A torture technique in which the victim is immobilized, has towels or rags wrapped over their face, and has water poured onto them, causing them to experience the sensation of drowning.
waterboarding
present participle of waterboard
Synonyms
Examples
Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.
Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders ... What we've been having ever since is a kind of fiscal waterboarding that has turned this nation into a debt colony.
It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight.
We did not learn Abu Ahmed's real name or alias as a result of waterboarding or any "enhanced interrogation technique" used on a detainee in U.S. custody.
Dr. Mitchell has described waterboarding and other violence as well as sleep deprivation and forced nudity as part of a program of “conditioning” captives to cooperate that has no long-lasting effect on them.
The unit has allegedly abused its power on people, which has included beatings, sexual assault, waterboarding and similar abuses.