Tortures Synonyms and Antonyms

Extreme mental distress
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. torments
  2. anguish
  3. hells
Subject to torture
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. torments
  2. racks
  3. whips
  4. crucifies
  5. lacerates
Antonyms:
  1. relieves
  2. alleviates
  3. pleases
The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. distortions

Words Related to Tortures

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Tortures Sentence Examples

  • In this curious vision Wettin saw Charles the Great suffering purgatorial tortures because of his incontinence.

  • Diogo Lopes escaped through the gratitude of a beggar to whom he had formerly done a kindness; but Coelho and Gonzales were executed, with horrible tortures, in the very presence of the king.

  • His imperfect signature to his confession of this date, consisting only of his Christian name and written in a faint and trembling hand, is probably a ghastly testimony to the severity of the torture ("per grad us ad ima") which James had ordered to be applied if he would not otherwise confess and the "gentler tortures" were unavailing, - a horrible practice unrecognized by the law of England, but usually employed and justified at this time in cases of treason to obtain information.

  • The barbarous tortures and executions which rendered Khiva notorious in the East are no longer heard of; and the continual appeals of the khojas for "holy" war against their rivals find no response.

  • At the same time it is probable that the serene joys of virtue and the grieflessness which the sage was conceived to maintain amid the worst tortures, formed the main attractions of Stoicism for ordinary minds.

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