torturing
adjective
1. extremely painful
Similar word(s): painful, agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturous
noun
1. the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
- it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession
Similar word(s): torture
Definition categories: act, persecution
verb
1. present participle of torture