Usually means: Preparation or anticipation of inflicting pain.
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  1. pretorture: Wordnik
  2. Pretorture: Dictionary.com
  3. Pretorture: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  4. pretorture: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  5. Pretorture: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  6. pretorture: FreeDictionary.org
  7. Pretorture: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. pretorture: Wiktionary

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▸ adjective:  Before torture.

Similar:
preslaughter, predetention, pregenocide, prefraud, preprovocation, predebriefing, preconfinement, preautopsy, premortem, prestarvation, more...

Opposite:
post-torture, rehabilitation, healing, recovery

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Similar:
preslaughter, predetention, pregenocide, prefraud, preprovocation, predebriefing, preconfinement, preautopsy, premortem, prestarvation, more...

Opposite:
post-torture, rehabilitation, healing, recovery



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