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        "From Middle English torture, from Old French torture, from Late Latin tortūra (“a twisting, writhing, of bodily pain, a griping colic;” in Medieval Latin “pain inflicted by judicial or ecclesiastical authority as a means of persuasion, torture”), from Latin tortus (whence also tort), past participle of torquēre (“to twist”)."
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              "mean": "The intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony.\n2014 January 1,  Claire Kramsch,  “Language and Culture”, in  AILA Review‎, volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 35:If Cheney calls it enhanced interrogation, he argues, this still doesn’t change the meaning of the word torture, which Cheney and the public know perfectly well. But cognitive linguists like Lakoff (1996) remind us that the public can be manipulated into believing that torture is “merely” an enhanced interrogation technique and thus does not protest.\n2015 November 30,  Shane O'Mara,  Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation‎, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12:Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, \"He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative\" (Summers 2011).\nUsing large dogs to attack bound, hand-cuffed prisoners is clearly torture.\nIn every war there are acts of torture that cause the world to shudder.\nPeople confess to anything under torture.\nSynonym: enhanced interrogation techniques"
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              "mean": "(chiefly literary) The \"suffering of the heart\" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships.\nEvery time she says 'goodbye' it is torture!\nCoventry City midfielder Josh Ruffels described his 11 months out injured as 'absolute torture' after the goalless draw with Derby County Under-21s. ()"
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