• n.
    ⦿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
    lexical concept
  • it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:torture
  2. enl:torturing
wn:interlingual indexili:i37620
wn:eq synonymdn:tortur§1

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labeltorturetorturing