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Meanings of torture in English
Catalan
deformació Spanish
deformación The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean.
Synonyms
Examples for "rack"
Examples for "rack"
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You shouldn't need any special gear; a standard double rack should suffice.
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I placed the letter in the rack in your room, immediately afterwards.
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Place the filled and capped containers on the rack in the sterilizer.
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Once we even received, from America of course, a cat hat-and-coat rack.
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First, you need to rack up over one hundred eighty thousand points.
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After it might have been an hour of this excruciate ecstasy the Countess came to Rosamund's bed.
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Her presence used to excruciate Osborne; but go she would upon all parties of pleasure on which she heard her young friends were bent.
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This morning's post-match video analysis and reflection will be excruciating individually and collectively.
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The hunger in his belly must have been excruciating by now.
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She never could have imagined how excruciating the lack of human contact could be.
Usage of torture in English
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So the question remains: how long will Ireland continue to torture women?
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Contemporary Greece was described as a classic case of government by torture.
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The judge also said the claim of police torture carried no weight.
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Those groups say state torture is widespread, an allegation the government denies.
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Ms Smith told Sky News: We absolutely oppose torture in this country.
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He said torture had been an institutional problem, rather than a policy.
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The idea is simple: to prevent torture or ill-treatment before it happens.
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The information played right into Hoover's Chinese water torture of the Kennedys.
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However, he did say issues of torture could arise during the trial.
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In his right hand he carried an implement of torture- abonesaw.
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Yet physical torture was far from the only element in the confessions.
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If the torture be too great to bear, say: 'I will confess.
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Shamsi said Slahi's ordeal is more proof that torture does not work.
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But his family say he had suffered severe facial injuries under torture.
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Rights groups said he was involved in the widespread torture of detainees.
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The deaths were reportedly caused by the use of torture by police.
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Translations for torture
Portuguese
Torture through the time
Torture across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
New Zealand
Common
Ireland
Common
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