torture

piinata, kiduttaa

kidutus

vääristely intentional Intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony.

Using large dogs to attack bound, hand-cuffed prisoners is clearly torture.

In every war there are acts of torture that cause the world to shudder.

People confess to anything under torture.

Every time she says goodbye' it is torture!''

People who torture often have sadistic tendencies.

: With these passages and other similar ones, the poor gentleman lost his judgement. He spent his nights and gave himself torture to understand them, to consider them more deeply, to take from them their deepest meaning, which Aristotle himself would not have been able to do, had he been resurrected for that very purpose.