| 单词 | strapado |
| 释义 | strapado (once / 787955 pages) n WORD FAMILY strapado USAGE EXAMPLESThe masters being all tortured, the slaves next received the strapado. Thornbury, Walter, The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II...(2012) To my Face!—Take him away, and let him have the Strapado. Summers, Montague, The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III(2010) n a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope Syn|Hyper strappado torture, torturing the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason |
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