Synset omw.00421437-n

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Lemmas: torture, torturing

Definition: 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

Examples:

  • it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession

sts.03824 TORTYR

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