单词 | torturing |
释义 | torturingn. The action of torture v.; infliction of torture; tormenting; figurative wresting, perversion. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > infliction of tormentingc1290 torture1551 torturing1633 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun] wrestingc1444 pervertinga1450 corruptiona1513 straining1528 writhing?1532 hacking1539 violence1546 racking1556 wrying1562 wringing1565 detorting1579 wrest1581 detortion1598 wrench1603 torture1605 distorting1610 violencing1612 refraction1614 misacception1629 distortion1650 distorture1709 misacceptation1721 torturing1753 verbicide1826 stretch1849 twisting1890 queeringness1955 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun] > instance of violence1546 wresting1551 wreathing1556 strain1579 wrest1581 mis-sense1615 by-signification1651 extortion1652 corruption1699 wrench1701 by-sense1782 corruptibility1847 torturing1855 twist1862 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xii. lxv. 175 He soon was led Unto a thousand thousand torturings. a1649 W. Drummond Irene in Wks. (1711) 170 Ruines of Noble Houses,..Confiscation of Estates, torturing of Bodies. 1753 W. Stewart in Scots Mag. Mar. 135/2 What strange..torturing of..upright actions must there be, to make this criminal? 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (1830) I. i. 133 Prohibition not only of killing and maiming, but also of torturing (to which our laws are strangers). 1855 F. D. Maurice Patriarchs & Law-givers (1882) xii. 223 These are not inferences drawn from the story by an unnatural torturing. Compounds torturing-stock n. a person upon whom torture is inflicted.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > one who is tortured torturing-stock1622 1622 Bp. J. Hall Serm. Thebalds 27 Yet..were these poore torturing-stocks higher..than their persecutors. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2020). torturingadj. That tortures; inflicting or causing torture; tormenting, excruciating. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [adjective] anguishous?c1225 wounding?c1225 asperc1374 derflya1400 rending?c1400 furiousc1405 fretting1413 piercingc1450 anguish1477 piquant1521 anguishing?1566 plaguing1566 asperous?1567 agonizing1570 tormenting1575 wringing1576 cutting1582 tormentous1583 tormentful1596 tormentuous1597 racking1598 torturous1600 lacerating1609 torturing1611 tearinga1616 heart-aching1620 breast-rending1625 crucifying1648 tormentative1654 martyring?a1656 tormentive1655 discruciating1658 cruciatory1660 anguishful1685 brain-racking1708 probing1749 agonized1793 anguished1803 harrowing1810 vulnerary1821 grinding1869 torturesome1889 wrenching1889 tortuous1922 society > authority > punishment > torture > [adjective] > that tortures tormenting1575 tormentous1583 torturous1600 torturing1611 1611 W. Mure Misc. Poems ii. 46 He [Cupid]..fled away..; But, (woes me,) left behind his tort'ring toyle. 1669 A. Thorold in St. Papers, Dom. 505 An eminent French Protestant..put to a torturing death. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. viii. 267 This state of torturing suspense. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna x. viii. 216 [He] bade the torturing wheel Be brought. 1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xvii. 225 Her past.., of which the bare memory was so torturing. Derivatives ˈtorturingly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [adverb] unsoftOE sharplya1023 derfly?c1225 derfc1325 pinefullyc1390 anguishouslyc1440 heinouslya1555 tormentingly1575 keenlya1593 cuttingly1611 torturingly?a1625 stingingly1667 severelya1682 piercingly1781 harrowingly1799 excruciatingly1808 martyrly1819 pinchingly1825 crucifyingly1826 torturously1857 woundingly1887 scarifyingly1921 the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adverb] > anguish or torment sorelyc888 sorec1290 tormentingly1575 sensibly1613 torturingly?a1625 tormentously1669 agonizingly1775 excruciatingly1808 tormentedly1891 ?a1625 Lawes of Candy iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Hhh3/1 An host of furies Could not have baited me, more torturingly. 1882 T. Hardy Two on Tower I. ix. 173 He was there a torturingly long time. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1622adj.1611 |
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