torture
Definitions
Noun
- Extreme mental distress
- Unbearable physical pain
- Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
- The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- 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
Verb
- Torment emotionally or mentally
- Subject to torture
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Words that contain the term "torture".
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| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | structure | 2 | 91 |
| 2 | tortured | 2 | 9 |
| 3 | overture | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | torque | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | overtures | 3 | 3 |
| 6 | tortures | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | toured | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | torturer | 3 | 0 |
| 9 | torturers | 3 | 0 |
| 10 | torte | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | torre | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | torrez | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | torrey | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | torres | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | torturous | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | torturing | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | tortorice | 3 | 0 |
| 18 | tornatore | 4 | 0 |
| 19 | stricture | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | ture | 1 | 0 |
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Term
Definitions: 7
Fragments: 5
Sound Alikes: 3
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 2
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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