torture

Etymology
From, from , from , from (whence also ), past participle of.

Noun

 * 1) The infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.
 * 2) Severe pain or anguish, of mind or body.
 * 3)  An unpleasant sensation or its infliction: embarrassment, heartache, etc.
 * Coventry City midfielder Josh Ruffels described his 11 months out injured as 'absolute torture' after the goalless draw with Derby County Under-21s.
 * 1)  (often as "absolute torture") Stage fright; severe embarrassment.
 * 1) Severe pain or anguish, of mind or body.
 * 2)  An unpleasant sensation or its infliction: embarrassment, heartache, etc.
 * Coventry City midfielder Josh Ruffels described his 11 months out injured as 'absolute torture' after the goalless draw with Derby County Under-21s.
 * 1)  (often as "absolute torture") Stage fright; severe embarrassment.
 * Coventry City midfielder Josh Ruffels described his 11 months out injured as 'absolute torture' after the goalless draw with Derby County Under-21s.
 * 1)  (often as "absolute torture") Stage fright; severe embarrassment.
 * 1)  (often as "absolute torture") Stage fright; severe embarrassment.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: marteling
 * Albanian: ,
 * Amharic: ሥቃይ
 * Arabic: تَعْذِيب, عَذَاب
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: tortura
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Basque: tortura
 * Belarusian: катава́нне, тарту́ра, тарту́ры
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: ညှဉ်းပမ်း
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: kasakit
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏓᎩᎷᏗ, ᎠᏓᎩᎵᏲᏍᏙᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech: mučení
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: piinamine
 * Faroese: píning
 * Fijian: veivakararawataki
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: წამება
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌻𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: βάσανος
 * Gujarati: ત્રાસ
 * Hausa:
 * Hawaiian: hoʻomāinoino'
 * Hebrew: עינויים
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: pianadh
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: азаптау, азап, қинау
 * Khmer: ទារុណកម្ម
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ການທໍລະມານ, ການທໍຣະມານ, ທາຣຸນກັມ, ທາລຸນກັມ
 * Latin: cruciāmen, cruciātus
 * Latvian: spīdzināšana
 * Lithuanian: kankinimas
 * Macedonian: ма́чење, то́рмоз, тормо́зење, торту́ра
 * Malagasy:
 * Mirandese:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, тамлалт
 * Norman: tortuthe
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: tortur
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: clæmnes, tintreg, witnung, pinung
 * Pashto:, ,
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Kjwal
 * Polish:, tortury
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Punjabi: ਤਸ਼ੱਦਦ
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Samoan: faʻatāugā
 * Scottish Gaelic: cràdh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мучење, торту́ра
 * Roman: ,
 * Shona: kurwadziswa
 * Sinhalese: වධ
 * Slovak: mučenie
 * Slovene: mučenje
 * Sotho: tlhokofatso
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tahitian: anei
 * Tajik:, шиканҷа
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, ทารุณกรรม
 * Tongan: fakamamahi'i
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: güzap, ,
 * Ukrainian: торту́ра, катува́ння, торту́ри
 * Uyghur: ئازاب, قىيناش
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: artaith, arteithiau
 * West Frisian: marteling
 * Xhosa: sentuthumbo
 * Yakut: эрэй
 * Yiddish: פּײַניקונג


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian: стра́дање, страда́ние, ма́чење, ма́ка
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: ,


 * Esperanto:
 * Swedish: (1-2)

Verb

 * 1)  To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone), usually with the aim of forcing confessions or punishing them.
 * 2) * 1 August 2014,, "Press Conference by the President"; transcript published online by the Obama White House Archives, [1].
 * With respect to the larger point of the RDI report itself, even before I came into office I was very clear that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 we did some things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: عَذَّبَ
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: torturar
 * Azerbaijani: işgəncə vermək
 * Basque: torturatu
 * Belarusian: катава́ць, му́чыць
 * Bulgarian:, , измъ́ча,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: pasakitan
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tortere, torturere
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: piinama
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌻𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: βασανίζω
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 고문하다
 * Lao: ທໍລະມານ
 * Latgalian: komuot
 * Latin: cruciō, torqueō, mācerō
 * Latvian: mocīt
 * Lithuanian: kamuoti
 * Macedonian: мачи, измачи
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norman: tortuther
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: мѫчити
 * Old East Slavic: мучити
 * Old English: gecwealmbæran, tintregian, witnian, pinian
 * Old Norse: kvelja, pína
 * Polish:, katować,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: му̏чити
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: mučiť
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, işkence etmek
 * Ukrainian: катува́ти, му́чити
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology
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