torturing

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymstorture

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1. 1.

   extremely painful

   Synonymsagonizingagonisingexcruciatingharrowingtorturoustorturesome

   Similarpainful

Other forms of torturing

plural

torturings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about torturing

What does torturing mean?

torturing means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in torturing?

torturing has 3 syllables: tor-tu-ring. The stress falls on "tor". In IPA it is /ˈtɔɹtʃɚɪŋ/.

What is another word for torturing?

Close synonyms include torture, agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing. 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 torturing a common word?

torturing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.