nail pulling

1. 1.

   a form of torture in which the fingernails or toenails are removed

   Synonymsnail removal

   Broadertorture

Questions about nail pulling

What does nail pulling mean?

nail pulling means "a form of torture in which the fingernails or toenails are removed".

What is another word for nail pulling?

Close synonyms include nail removal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nail pulling a common word?

nail pulling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.