Synonyms of the word

torture

• n. Intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony.
• n. (chiefly literary) The "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships.
• n. (colloquial) (often as "absolute torture") stage fright, severe embarrassment.
• v. (transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).

agony

• n. Violent contest or striving.
• n. Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic…
• n. Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
• n. The last struggle of life; death struggle.

anguish

• n. Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
• v. (intransitive) To suffer pain.
• v. (transitive) To cause to suffer pain.

distortion

• n. An act of distorting.
• n. A result of distorting.
• n. A misrepresentation of the truth.
• n. Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
• n. An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.
• n. (optics) an aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.

distress

• n. (Cause of) discomfort.
• n. Serious danger.
• n. (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
• n. (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
• v. To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
• v. (law) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
• v. To treat an object, such as an antique, to give it an appearance of age.

excruciate

• v. (transitive) To inflict intense pain or mental distress on (someone); to torture.
• adj. (obsolete) Excruciated; tortured.

falsification

• n. the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something…
• n. knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.
• n. showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.

hurt

• v. (intransitive) To be painful.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
• v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
• adj. Wounded, physically injured.
• adj. Pained.
• n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
• n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
• n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
• n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
• n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
• n. A husk.

hurting

• v. present participle of hurt.
• n. A sensation that hurts.

injure

• v. (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
• v. (transitive) To damage or impair.
• v. (transitive) To do injustice to.

overrefinement

• n. Excessive refinement.

pain

• n. (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation,…
• n. (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure;…
• n. (countable) An annoying person or thing.
• n. (uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
• n. Labour; effort; pains.
• v. (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any…
• v. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

persecution

• n. The act of persecuting.
• n. A program or campaign to subjugate or eliminate a specific group of people, often based on race, religion,…

rack

• n. A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
• n. Any of various kinds of frame for holding clothes, bottles, animal fodder, mined ore, shot on a vessel,…
• n. (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
• n. A distaff.
• n. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to…
• n. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction…
• n. A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
• n. A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a…
• n. A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
• n. A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
• n. (billiards, snooker, pool) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
• n. (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
• n. (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars,…
• n. (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners,…
• n. A grate on which bacon is laid.
• n. (obsolete) That which is extorted; exaction.
• n. (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
• v. To place in or hang on a rack.
• v. To torture (someone) on the rack.
• v. To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
• v. (figuratively) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
• v. (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
• v. (slang) To strike a male in the groin with the knee.
• v. To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic…
• v. (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
• v. (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
• v. To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
• v. To stretch a person's joints.
• v. To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
• v. To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
• n. Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
• v. (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning…
• v. (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
• n. A fast amble.
• n. (obsolete) A wreck; destruction.

straining

• v. present participle of strain.
• n. The act by which one strains.

suffering

• adj. Experiencing pain.
• n. The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
• v. present participle of suffer.

torment

• n. (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
• n. Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
• n. Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
• v. (transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.).

torturing

• n. An act of torture.
• v. present participle of torture.

twisting

• v. present participle of twist.
• n. gerund of twist.
• adj. Having many twists.

wound

• n. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
• n. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
• n. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
• v. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
• v. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wind.