Betekenis van:
torture
to torture
Werkwoord
- martelen, folteren, pijnigen
- subject to torture
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to torture
Werkwoord
- torment emotionally or mentally
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torture
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- gemartel
- 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
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torture
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- torment, tortuur, kwelling, agonie, doodsstrijd
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
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torture
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- hartbeklemming, stenocardie, agonie, doodsstrijd, zieltoging
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
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torture
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- doodsangst, agonie, doodsstrijd, zieltoging, stervensnood
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
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torture
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- draaierij
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
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torture
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- verrekking
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
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torture
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- geniepigheid, achterbaksheid, gluiperigheid, draaierij
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
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torture
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- pijniging
- extreme mental distress
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Voorbeeldzinnen
- Where did you torture them?
- Who did Maurice Papon torture?
- The prisoner died under torture.
- We wouldn't say anything even under torture.
- Special forces training is already a torture.
- In special forces, torture is a taboo.
- Confessions obtained by torture are generally worthless.
- He was subjected to torture by the police.
- His lecture on chemistry was nothing but torture.
- Nobody should be subjected to pains or torture.
- As a mercenary, did you participate in torture sessions?
- The torture had dramatic consequences on his personality.
- It was torture for him to see his girlfriend with another man.
- When he was a kid, he used to catch birds and torture them to death.
- In the U.S., it is illegal to torture people in order to get information from them.