Words and phrases that have a meaning related to torture: (183 results)
Often used in the same context:
torturers, waterboarding, interrogations, beatings, mistreatment, brutality, interrogators, atrocities, sensory deprivation, waterboard, persecution, repression, detainee, sadism, brutalization, human rights, mutilation, genocide, abuses, humiliation, geneva convention, hooding, cruelty, gulags, extrajudicial, barbarity, coercion, female circumcision, gitmo, dehumanization, corporal punishment, internment, vivisection, oppression, disappearances, torment, massacres, electroshock, maltreatment, prisoners, cannibalism, khmer rouge, inhumanities, treason, detention, racial profiling, brutalisation, dehumanisation, infamies, captives, crucifixion, castration, guantanamo, terror, infanticide, desecration, torquemada, barbarism, ethnic cleansing, enslavement, complicity, renditions, terrorism, lynching, nakedness, enormities, rape, wiretapping, sexual abuse, profanation, outrages, spying, inquisition, assassinations, horrors, hazing, narcoanalysis, intimidation, witchcraft, habeas corpus, brainwashing, shackling, abasement, necrophilia, slaughter, solitary confinement, indoctrination, namo, deprivation, slavery, psyop, bondage, spanking, depravity, femicide, dirty war, confessions, apostasy, starvation, subjugation, violence, blasphemy, tortures, torments, agony, misery, anguish, agonies, suffering, indignities, sufferings, pangs, heartache, infliction, privation, butchery, martyrdom, heartbreak, miseries, quadrennial, shrine, airconditioned, anechoic, counting, crummy, delousing, fireless, frescoed, grandest, guard, preseason, roofless, store, subterranean, subterraneous, tell, unventilated, virginia
More specific:
excruciation, martyr, martyrize, rack
Appears in the definition of:
., boot, brutal, cruel and unusual punishment, dirty war, excruciate, hellish, impalement, instrument of torture, iron boot, iron heel, iron maiden, martyr, martyrise, martyrize, put, rack, revolutionary united front, ruf, strappado, third degree, thumbscrew, torment, torture chamber, turkish hizballah, unbrainwashed, wheel
More general:
distress, falsehood, falsification, hurt, hurting, injure, misrepresentation, pain, wound
Synonyms:
Also try:distortion, overrefinement, straining, torturing, twisting
— Adjectives for torture: physical, mental, such, slow, exquisite, cruel, self, judicial, psychological, eternal, horrible, more...
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