torture : Idioms & Phrases


genital torture

  • noun blunt or penetrating trauma or rape (vaginal or anal)
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instrument of torture

  • noun an instrument of punishment designed and used to inflict torture on the condemned person
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judicial torture

  • noun torture that is sanctioned by the state and executed by duly accredited officials
    • the English renounced judicial torture in 1640
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self-torture

  • noun self-imposed distress
    self-torment.
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Self`-tor"ture noun
Definitions
  1. The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.
Webster 1913

torture chamber

  • noun a room in which torture is inflicted
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