Word Meanings - TORTURINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

So as to torture. Beau. & Fl.

Related words: (words related to TORTURINGLY)

• TORTURE
  rack, torture; probably akin to Gr. tre`pein to turn, G. drechsein to turn on a lathe, and perhaps to E. queer. Cf. Contort, Distort, 1. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind. Shak. Ghastly spasm
• TORTURER
  One who tortures; a tormentor.
• PRETORTURE
  To torture beforehand. Fuller.
• SELF-TORTURE
  The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.