Usually means: Inflicting severe pain on someone.
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  1. torturing: Merriam-Webster
  2. torturing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. torturing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Torturing, torturing: Wordnik
  5. torturing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. torturing: Wiktionary
  7. Torturing, torturing: Dictionary.com
  8. torturing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Torturing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Torturing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. torturing: Rhymezone
  12. Torturing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. torturing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. torturing: FreeDictionary.org
  15. torturing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. torturing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. torturing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. torturing: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (torturing)

▸ noun:  An act of torture

Similar:
torturous, torturesome, excruciating, agonizing, harrowing, painful, tormenting, cruciation, pain-making, torching, more...

Opposite:
soothing, comforting, consoling, alleviating, easing

Adjectives:
more, less, cruel, further, such, self, systematic, various, savage, single, public

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Similar:
torturous, torturesome, excruciating, agonizing, harrowing, painful, tormenting, cruciation, pain-making, torching, more...

Opposite:
soothing, comforting, consoling, alleviating, easing

Adjectives:
more, less, cruel, further, such, self, systematic, various, savage, single, public

Colors:
    black,     red,     dark gray,     blood red,     deep purple, more...



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