Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Kuvat
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Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- The infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.
- Severe pain or anguish, of mind or body.
- (in figurative or extended use) An unpleasant sensation or its infliction: embarrassment, heartache, etc.
Verbi
- (transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone), usually with the aim of forcing confessions or punishing them.
Esimerkit
- Using large dogs to attack bound, hand-cuffed prisoners is clearly torture.
- In every war there are acts of torture that cause the world to shudder.
- People confess to anything under torture.
- Every time she says 'goodbye' it is torture!
- People who torture often have sadistic tendencies.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | tortured | Imperfekti | tortured |
| Partisiipin preesens | torturing | Monikko | tortures |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | tortures | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | tortureth (vanhahtava) |
Luokat
The infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.
Captured Viet Cong soldier, blindfolded and tied in a stress position by American forces during the Vietnam War, 1967
(transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone), usually with the aim of forcing confessions or punishing them.
Two Elamite chiefs flayed alive after the Battle of Ulai, Assyrian relief
Severe pain or anguish, of mind or body.
"The custody of a criminal does not require torture" by Francisco Goya, c. 1812