Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to torture
Participle: tortured
Gerund: torturing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | torture |
| you | torture |
| he;she;it | tortures |
| we | torture |
| you | torture |
| they | torture |
Perfect
| I | have tortured |
| you | have tortured |
| he;she;it | has tortured |
| we | have tortured |
| you | have tortured |
| they | have tortured |
Past
| I | tortured |
| you | tortured |
| he;she;it | tortured |
| we | tortured |
| you | tortured |
| they | tortured |
Pluperfect
| I | had tortured |
| you | had tortured |
| he;she;it | had tortured |
| we | had tortured |
| you | had tortured |
| they | had tortured |
Future
| I | will torture |
| you | will torture |
| he;she;it | will torture |
| we | will torture |
| you | will torture |
| they | will torture |
Future Perfect
| I | will have tortured |
| you | will have tortured |
| he;she;it | will have tortured |
| we | will have tortured |
| you | will have tortured |
| they | will have tortured |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | torture |
| you | torture |
| he;she;it | torture |
| we | torture |
| you | torture |
| they | torture |
Perfect
| I | have tortured |
| you | have tortured |
| he;she;it | have tortured |
| we | have tortured |
| you | have tortured |
| they | have tortured |
Imperfect
| I | tortured |
| you | tortured |
| he;she;it | tortured |
| we | tortured |
| you | tortured |
| they | tortured |
Pluperfect
| I | had tortured |
| you | had tortured |
| he;she;it | had tortured |
| we | had tortured |
| you | had tortured |
| they | had tortured |
Conditional
Present
| I | would torture |
| you | would torture |
| he;she;it | would torture |
| we | would torture |
| you | would torture |
| they | would torture |
Perfect
| I | would have tortured |
| you | would have tortured |
| he;she;it | would have tortured |
| we | would have tortured |
| you | would have tortured |
| they | would have tortured |
Imperative
| you | torture |
| we | Let's torture |
| you | torture |
Verbs conjugated like 'torture'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'torture'
fortune,
nurture,
posture,
texture,
tonsure,
capture,
cloture,
conjure,
conturb,
contuse,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to worry excessively
- agonize, bereave, fret, lament
- to cause pain
- afflict, dere, excruciate, hurt, pang, pine, rack, throe, torment
- torment
- pain, anguish, suffering, agony, tribulation
Antonyms
- torment
- please, mollify, ease, help
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1495 (implied in torturous), from M.Fr. torture "infliction of great pain, great pain, agony," from L.L. torture "a twisting, writhing, torture, torment," from stem of L. torquere "to twist, turn, wind, wring, distort" (see thwart). The verb is 1588, from the noun. Tortuous "full of twists" is recorded from 1426.
2. From Middle English torture, from Old French torture, from Late Latin tortūra (“a twisting, writhing, of bodily pain, a griping colic;” in Medieval Latin “pain inflicted by judicial or ecclesiastical authority as a means of persuasion, torture”), from Latin tortus (whence also tort), past participle of torquēre (“to twist”).
Sample Sentences
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[...] one of those cast-iron images—I will not call them men—who ask, with red faces, and lusty voices, what sea-sickness means, and whether it really is as bad as it is represented to be. This was very torturing indeed; and I do n't think I ever felt such perfect gratification and gratitude of heart, as I did when I heard from the ship 's doctor that he had been obliged to put a large mustard poultice on [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of these two men until he is almost distracted. He never changes them. There they are always as he first imagined them—an old man on the right; a younger man upon the left—whose hidden features torture him to death, and have a mystery that makes him tremble.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] too, are shocking. All men who know that there are laws against instructing slaves, of which the pains and penalties greatly exceed in their amount the fines imposed on those who maim and torture them, must be prepared to find their faces very low in the scale of intellectual expression. But the darkness—not of skin, but mind—which meets the stranger 's eye at every turn; the brutalizing [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] itself. It is said, “ Very likely such cases may now and then occur, but they are no sample of general practice. ” If the laws of New England were so arranged that a master could _now and then_ torture an apprentice to death, would it be received with equal composure ? Would it be said, “ These cases are rare, and no samples of general practice ” ? This injustice is an _inherent_ one in the slave [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)