Torturing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TORTURING in dictionary:

VERB:
• inflict severe pain on
• cause great mental suffering to
NOUN:
• the act of torturing
• the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or in order to force them to do or say something
• great physical or mental suffering
• a cause of great physical or mental suffering
• 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
ADJECTIVE:
• causing severe physical pain
• extremely painful
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to subject to severe physical pain

Words related to TORTURING

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Words that contain TORTURING

torturings11 torturingly15

How to use TORTURING in a sentence

• Four years ago, while my heart- ache for her was fresh and torturing, a new pastor came to the little village church of Valley Mills.
• For the last fortnight you have been torturing me with that child, by keeping him near me, with the idea that I should end by nursing him.
• With torturing effort, he raised his eyes to a couple of elderly male Whipples.
• They were guilty of torturing their prisoners to death.
• She did it though, the child shrank from her as from some torturing fiend.
• I tried to put this strange puzzle out of my head, but again and again the accursed and torturing passage would ring in my ears until I nearly went crazy.
• Now, whether torturing an animal is or is not an immoral thing, it is, at least, a dreadful thing.
• Sure of Clark, he kept on, his black and savage heart leaping with joy in anticipation of torturing him.
• From this intemperate Fenians should learn that the Teutonic mercenaries did not confine themselves solely to torturing Irishmen.
• We are not, universally at least, so weak as to persist in torturing people for their good.
• And she was found at last, after all their suspense, their torturing anxiety.
• A more deliberate, a more torturing murder, never was committed, than the murder of Keats.
• At night she hardly slept, but lay broad awake for hours in her little, gayly painted bed, with its white netting, torturing herself with doubts and questions.
• Ottocar, however, though he left Rhodolph with the strongest protestations of friendship, returned to Prague consumed by the most torturing fires of humiliation and chagrin.
• He did not hear the door open again, for the torturing pain that shot through him dulled all his other senses.
• So torturing was it in the afternoon that the sodden cold of the night now seemed as nothing in comparison, and to relieve it I dropped my body into the water to soak again.
• The discomfort he had experienced since downing that mouthful of the cup of friendship had tightened into a fist of pain clutching his middle in a torturing grip.
• At night the victors camped in triumph on the field of battle, torturing one of their captives till Champlain begged to put him out of pain, and sent a bullet through his heart.
• Alas, it is the ungrateful child that has the power to inflict a slow and torturing death! Poor father! Poor mother! And it is I that must witness it.
• Each successive disappointment was as acute as the last, made more poignant by the torturing certainty that his hopes were vain.
• Never before, since his marriage, had he been in such a predicament, and never again, he hoped, would he feel the misery that was now torturing him.
• You are laboring under some strong delusion, and are torturing yourself to no purpose.
• It was torturing to think that her fancied security was really more perilous than the more apparent plight of the storm-tossed boats.
• The brute looked as if he were quite capable of locking me up and starving or torturing me until I gave him the secret.
• OENONE Dear Madam, By all the tears that I have shed for you, By these weak knees I clasp, relieve my mind From torturing doubt.
• And finally, you have twice saved my life and I would find small pleasure in torturing you.
• I am not one of those women who can bear the torturing pangs of any illness or accident without an outcry.
• Frequently slaves would visit without benefit of passes, and as result they suffered severe torturing.
• The terrifying and torturing teachings of the New Testament are from obscure authors, or from the masters in their lower moods.
• The deserted huts seemed very lonely indeed when they had gone, but Dorothy was a healthy, prairie-bred girl, and not given to torturing herself with vain imaginings.
• It would be difficult to fancy a state of more torturing suspense than that endured by the companions of Boone and Calloway, who had been left behind the hill.
• The situation which arises is one of torturing anxiety for all concerned, and it is not less so when all concerned are animated by noble and self-sacrificing impulses.
• The town yielded, the people fled to the woods, and then began the wonted sport of torturing the prisoners.
• There was no Deacon standing before me, with a loaded rifle, swearing that I should submit to the torturing lash, or be shot down like a dumb beast.

Similar words containing TORTUR without suffix ing

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