torture近义词

1. 拷问，折磨，拷打
2. 酷刑，严刑，刑讯
3. 歪曲，扭曲，曲解
4. 苦恼
5. 严刑拷打
6. 压迫
7. 折磨人的事物，使人痛苦的原因
8. 折磨的手段，拷问的方法
9. 剧痛，痛苦
10. 猛烈的扭曲、摇撼

1. 拷问，折磨，拷打，严刑逼供，使受煎熬，虐待
2. 歪曲，扭曲，曲解
3. 使为难
4. 扭弯，扭折
5. 拼命地熬住
6. 啮蚀
7. 使痛苦
8. 使苦恼
9. 使焦急

1. extreme mental distress
2. unbearable physical pain
3. intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain;

   "an agony of doubt"
   "the torments of the damned"
   

4. the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
5. 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;

   "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
   

1. torment emotionally or mentally
2. subject to torture;

   "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
   

1.拷打;拷问;虐待
If someoneis tortured, another person deliberately causes them great pain over a period of time, in order to punish them or to make them reveal information.

e.g. French police are convinced that she was tortured and killed...
法国警方确信她是被拷打致死。
e.g. Three members of the group had beentortured to death…
该团体中有三个人被拷打致死。

2.折磨;使痛苦;使苦恼
Totorture someone means to cause them to suffer mental pain or anxiety.

e.g. He would nottorture her further by trying to argue with her...
他不愿与她争辩，让她更痛苦。
e.g. She tortured herself with fantasies of Bob and his new girlfriend.
她想象着鲍勃和他的新女友在一起的情形，心里备受煎熬。

3.折磨;痛苦;苦恼;引起痛苦(或苦恼)的事物
If you say that something istorture or atorture, you mean that it causes you great mental or physical suffering.

e.g. Waiting for the result wastorture...
等待结果的过程是一种折磨。
e.g. The friction of the sheets against his skin wastorture…
被单摩擦着他的皮肤，简直像是酷刑。

1. The torture made him confess.
   严刑拷打使他招供了。
2. She suffered tortures from a toothache.
   她受着牙痛的折磨。

1. They tortured the prisoner until he made a confession.
   他们对犯人施以酷刑,直到他招供。
2. Why do we have to keep on torturing ourselves by taking about it?
   为什么我们要一直谈论那件事让自己痛苦呢?
3. That cruel boy tortures animals.
   那个残忍的男孩虐待动物。
4. Winds tortured the trees.
   风把树吹得东倒西歪。
5. They tortured the man to make him confess his crime.
   他们拷打那人,使他招认他的罪行。
6. The illness tortured the man to death.
   疾病把这人折磨致死。
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7. He was caught by the British and tortured.
   他落入英国人之手后受到严刑拷打。
8. Many people are tortured by cancer.
   许多人在受癌症的折磨。
9. She was tortured by jealousy.
   她为妒忌所苦。

• His tension mounts, and the last quarter hour before they meet is sheer torture.

  出自：J. Moynahan

• ☆ 15世纪初期进入英语，直接源自古法语的torture，意为剧痛；最初源自晚期拉丁语的tortura，意为扭弯。