Torturing

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  torturing
       adj : extremely painful [syn: {agonizing}, {agonising}, {excruciating},
              {harrowing}, {torturous}, {torturesome}]
       n : the act of torturing someone; "it required unnatural
           torturing to extract a confession" [syn: {torture}]



From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "torturing":
     abuse of terms, agonizing, catachresis, contorting, corruption,
     distortion, eisegesis, error, false coloring, garbling, gloss,
     harrowing, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication,
     misapprehension, miscitation, misconception, misconstruction,
     misdirection, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition,
     misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misquotation,
     misreading, misrendering, misrepresentation, mistranslation,
     misunderstanding, misuse, misuse of words, perversion, racking,
     slanting, squeezing, straining, tearing, tormenting, torturous,
     twisting, wrenching