·noun The act or process of torturing.
II. Torture ·vt To keep on the stretch, as a bow.
III. Torture ·vt To wrest from the proper meaning; to Distort.
IV. Torture ·vt To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.
V. Torture ·noun Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
VI. Torture ·vt To put to torture; to pain extremely; to Harass; to Vex.
VII. Torture ·noun Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.