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Meanings of physical torture in English

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Usage of physical torture in English
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Yet physical torture was far from the only element in the confessions.
Templars: history and myth: from solomon's temple to the freemas...
2
This continual expectation became at length a physical torture, an actual illness.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
3
Even physical torture would be preferable to what I have passed through.
Tarzan the Untamed
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For a trifling indiscretion Sarah was thus condemned to extreme physical torture.
Hilda Lessways
5
Could you have gotten the man to speak without resorting to physical torture?
Patient Zero
6
The old man was parched with thirst and his physical torture had doubled.
Brazilian Tales
7
A sigh broke from him, as it were of physical torture.
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
8
His physical torture seemed, for the time, extinguished by some deep mental agony.
The Boy Slaves
9
Instead of starvation and mental abuse, they'd move on to actual physical torture.
Revelation
10
What is physical torture, if someone who loves you is nigh?
The Ragged Edge
11
No physical torture, no thumbscrews, no sexual or religious humiliation. He shook his head.
Patient Zero
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He could have yelled as a man might yell in the extremity of physical torture.
A Soldier of the Legion
13
The name hurt Maria Vittoria like a physical torture.
Clementina
14
He remarked in a recent video that creating music involved " physical torture" for him.
Reuters
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But the psychological torment was just as bad as physical torture would have been, perhaps worse.
Don't cry
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But finally the sheer brain power of the man began to triumph over his physical torture.
Triplanetary
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