I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gas/torture chamber (= used for killing people by gas or for hurting them )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mental
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If the mental torture is always there, the physical hurt and threat is, for most, behind them.
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I could scarcely bear to watch the mental torture you put my daughter through that evening.
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The mental torture of that for Charlie would have been tremendous.
physical
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Oh, they won't go for anything so crude as physical torture .
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The report also stated that physical and psychological torture was routinely used against those in police custody and in prison.
■ NOUN
chamber
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It was as if we were locked in a torture chamber .
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She's just discovered you have a torture chamber here.
victim
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Also patron of poverty and torture victims .
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Vanessa Redgrave plays a psychiatrist who runs a Portland, Ore., rehab center for torture victims from around the world.
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I told them I was a torture victim .
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In its young life here, Survivors International has treated some 400 torture victims from 39 countries.
■ VERB
subject
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Mum was subjected to water torture for three weeks running.
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Barbara was subjected to heinous torture , yet reftised to disavow her faith.
suffer
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I hope you suffer torture until you die.
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This is a theoretical draw, but Timman may have to suffer several hours of torture before he can claim the half-point.
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Those people have suffered torture and all sorts of indignities and have missing family members.
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The prisoners in Mozdok are rumoured to suffer worse torture than in those in Chernokozovo.
use
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That would suggest that as long as one has the time and the means one can avoid having to use torture .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The militias have been know to use torture to get people to confess.
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What torture parent's lectures are for children!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also patron of torture victims; he is invoked against foot trouble.
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Barbara was subjected to heinous torture , yet refused to disavow her faith.
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Heinz suggested that laws and constitutions of countries should be strengthened to make international declarations against torture into enforceable law.
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I never particularly relished torture , but I resigned myself to it when I arrived in Algiers...
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I should have been spared the torture of separation from my father during his last moments....
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Most of the reported deaths, however, were due to torture in both military barracks and police stations.
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They are not the reasons for the torture that I would be suffering in his place.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
death
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At this time, his wife Yelva was tortured to death .
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Another has him tortured to death by having his intestines pulled from him by a windlass.
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She was raped and tortured to death .
prisoner
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Her requests to inspect several detention centres where troops were alleged to have tortured prisoners were also ignored.
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So is the rape and torture of prisoners by prisoners.
■ VERB
arrest
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Hundreds of officers were arrested , tortured and executed.
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Regarded with suspicion by the police, such tribals are often arrested arbitrarily, tortured and stripped of their civil rights.
beat
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Throughout the country, Mugabe supporters have beaten , tortured and murdered opposition members.
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Some will starve to death, others will die of exposure, still others will be beaten or burned or tortured .
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He is haunted by flashbacks of being beaten , tortured and buried alive, but they are fragmented memories.
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During the six and a half years of marriage, I was repeatedly beaten , terrorized, tortured and sexually molested.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He is still tortured by memories of the attack.
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Several of the prisoners confirmed that they had been tortured.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And perms, our straight hair tortured into frizz for the Christmas or Easter gathering and the requisite smiling photograph.
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Anticipated in December and enjoyed in January, February citrus can torture the souls of tree owners.
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He is drawn to the Ring and his thoughts are tortured by it.
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His jailers realized that his ransom would exceed those of the other prisoners, so Raymond was continuously tortured for preaching.
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Piotr Jaroszewicz, 83, had been strangled at home near Warsaw after apparently being tortured.
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When confronted with the messiah being humiliated, tortured and killed, Peter refuses to listen.