Tortures is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TORTURES in dictionary:

VERB:
• TORTURE, to subject to severe physical pain
• inflict severe pain on
• cause great mental suffering to
NOUN:
• 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

Words related to TORTURES

torture7 tortured9 torturing10

Words that contain TORTURES

torturesome13

How to use TORTURES in a sentence

• Ledenberg committed suicide in his cell, sooner than brave the tortures which he anticipated at the hands of his enemies.
• Galilei was subjected to tortures by those who realized that this new theory struck down many a religious legend and many a moral creed.
• The tortures are renewed, and also the examinations, with the same result.
• Upon that solitary rock he had been subjected by turns to all the varied and cruel tortures of nature.
• Tug, though he knew it would heighten his own tortures, could not avoid expressing his opinion of such treatment of the sensitive History.
• The Spanish government took the part of the natives against the imposition of exhorbitant taxes, and the tortures of the inquisition by the early settlers.
• All the social tortures he endured grimly, in the hope that at last the cork would come out.
• They had been brought up every day before that they might see the tortures of their brethren.
• Having been arrested at Melun and taken to Paris, he was sentenced to capital punishment, and to all the tortures that ingenuity could add to it.
• He had, in fact, lost all perception of his individual misery, and a moral gloom, black as night, seemed to cover and mingle with those fiery tortures which were consuming him.
• You are saved from the tortures to which a criminal passion was leading you.
• One of the persons died under the tortures inflicted upon him.
• Sauvresy suffered altogether strange and unaccountable tortures.
• For those tortures were all physical, whereas the modern Englishman addresses himself to the brain and nerves, and finds the fear of madness more terrifying than the fear of pain.
• This deep wound, which had refused to heal ever since, caused him incessant tortures, which were increased rather than diminished whenever he uncovered the Holy Grail.
• Of the tortures practised by the islanders upon those who offended them, I was not left long in doubt.
• The society of others tortures me, and I avoid it only to torture myself.
• A shot ended his life, and saved him from the tortures that men like the mahdi inflict on their captives.
• She is a living body, and her tortures cannot be looked upon cold-bloodedly as an extraordinary, never-before-witnessed experiments in social evolution.
• Do you think it was easy for me? I suffered, Ivan Andreievitch, the tortures of hell.
• Inquisition, references to the tortures of the, 49-l.
• He neither thought of himself, nor the fatigues he must still support, nor of the tortures probably reserved for him by Negoro.
• But I will not further describe the tortures of my imprisonment.
• Martyrs, in the ecstasy of their religious fervour have often, as it would appear, been insensible to the most horrid tortures.
• Men in authority came and sought by promises, threats, and even tortures, to ascertain the names of other accomplices.
• They heard the confessions, and inflicted the tortures, and their cruelties were commensurate with the hard and fast theology that froze the blood of mercy in their veins.
• I cannot recount the tortures inflicted upon me by my son since that fatal discovery.
• At other times, ingenuity was exhausted to invent tortures, and every renewed endurance of the victim seemed to stimulate their vengeance to new discoveries of cruelty.
• I will not attempt to describe the number, the variety, and the diabolical ingenuity of the tortures to which I was subjected during the next twenty minutes.
• He suffered tortures from thirst because he would allow no fluid to pass his lips, on account of his tendency to dropsy.
• In another moment other of its pursuers would see it, and it would be overpowered and captured, to experience once more the horrible tortures of the enclosure.
• In the heart of one like me there are secret thoughts working, and secret tortures which you ought not to seek to discover.
• But as I had tortures because of my position he had anxieties because of the lack of means.

Similar words containing TORTURE without suffix s

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