Word Meanings - TORTUROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Involving, or pertaining to, torture. "The torturous crucifixion." I. Disraeli.

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• 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
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• TORTUROUS
  Involving, or pertaining to, torture. "The torturous crucifixion." I. Disraeli.
• CRUCIFIXION
  1. The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment. 2. The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross. 3.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• INVOLVE
  To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power. Syn. -- To imply; include; implicate; complicate; entangle; embarrass; overwhelm. -- To Involve,
• INVOLVEMENT
  The act of involving, or the state of being involved. Lew Wallace.
• TORTURER
  One who tortures; a tormentor.
• INVOLVED
  See INVOLUTE
• PRETORTURE
  To torture beforehand. Fuller.
• REINVOLVE
  To involve anew.
• DISINVOLVE
  To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle. Dr. H. More.
• SELF-TORTURE
  The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach