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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
torture/ˈtɔːtʃə(r)/

▶noun

1 the action or practice of inflicting severe pain as a punishment or a forcible means of persuasion.

2 great suffering or anxiety.

▶verb subject to torture.

– derivatives
torturer noun.

– origin ME: via Fr. from late L. tortura ‘twisting, torment’, from L. torquere ‘to twist’.

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