noun the act or process of torturing.
2. torture ·vt to keep on the stretch, as a bow.
3. torture ·vt to wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.
4. torture ·vt to punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.
5. torture ·noun extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
6. torture ·vt to put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
7. torture ·noun especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.