Thesaurus / torture
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One night he listened to a friendly old man slowly die alone in the next cell after a bout of torture.
ISLAMIST TERRORISM IS NOT DONE WITH US, WARNS FORMER AL QAEDA HOSTAGE THEO PADNOSKARL VICKFEBRUARY 25, 2021TIMEThese were people who had just escaped the most horrific abuse and torture, and violation from their own families.
WITNESS TO THE HORRORS IN CHECHNYAJOHN PAUL KINGFEBRUARY 25, 2021WASHINGTON BLADEShe wrote her resident’s thesis on political disappearances and torture cases archived by the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey.
THE 'BADASS CHIEF OF STAFF' OF TURKEY'S OPPOSITION FACES YEARS IN JAIL AFTER CHALLENGING ERDOGAN'S POWER. SHE'S NOT BACKING DOWNJOSEPH HINCKS / ISTANBULFEBRUARY 24, 2021TIMEThe same month, President Buhari signed into law the Anti-Torture Act, which criminalized torture.
THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT HAS PLEDGED TO #ENDSARS AND REFORM THE POLICE. THIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME THEY'VE MADE THAT PROMISEANDREW R. CHOWOCTOBER 28, 2020TIMEMany of them live in secrecy for fear of torture and execution.
INSIDE THE STRANGE NEW WORLD OF BEING A DEEPFAKE ACTORKAREN HAOOCTOBER 9, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWShe is serving her sentence in the detention center on Akrestina Street, which has lately become synonymous with torture and other ill-treatment, including sexual violence, against detainees.
BELARUS PROTESTS HIT HOMEVIACHASLAU BORTNIKOCTOBER 3, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEEarlier this year, the group Physicians for Human Rights concluded that the family separations at the border constituted torture.
BORDER REPORT: THE LINGERING TRAUMA OF FAMILY SEPARATIONMAYA SRIKRISHNANAUGUST 31, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOTheir government responded with mass arrests and torture, while shutting off the internet and other communication modes.
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: A WORLD IN NEEDDANIEL MALLOYAUGUST 16, 2020OZYTorture may change your mind, as shame shall change your body.
THE PROUD PRINCEJUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHYTorture indescribable has made of me a writhing, moaning, helpless creature for the past few minutes.
THE SORROWS OF SATANMARIE CORELLISYNONYM OF THE DAY
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO TORTURE
- abuse
- afflict
- aggrieve
- annoy
- burn
- chafe
- constrain
- cut to the quick
- discomfit
- discommode
- displease
- distress
- excruciate
- faze
- give no quarter
- go for jugular
- grieve
- hit where one lives
- injure
- lambaste
- lay a bad trip on
- lean on
- martyr
- martyrize
- prejudice
- punish
- put down
- put out
- sadden
- sting
- thumb nose at
- torment
- torture
- try
- upset
- vex
- vitiate
- work over
- wound
- zing
- abusing
- aching
- afflicting
- ailing
- being sore
- being tender
- belting
- biting
- blemishing
- bruising
- burning
- cramping
- cutting
- cutting up
- damaging
- disabling
- doing violence
- flailing
- flogging
- harming
- impairing
- injuring
- kicking
- lacerating
- lashing
- maltreating
- marring
- mauling
- mess up
- nipping
- piercing
- pinching
- pommelling
- pricking
- pummeling
- punching
- puncturing
- punishing
- rough up
- shaking up
- slapping
- slugging
- smarting
- spanking
- spoiling
- squeezing
- stabbing
- sting
- tearing
- throbbing
- tormenting
- torturing
- totaling
- troubling
- waxing
- whacking
- whipping
- winding
- winging
- wracking up
- wringing
- abuse
- aggrieve
- batter
- blemish
- blight
- break
- contort
- cripple
- cut up
- damage
- deface
- deform
- disable
- disfigure
- distort
- distress
- do in
- draw blood
- foul
- foul up
- grieve
- hack up
- impair
- maim
- maltreat
- mangle
- mar
- mutilate
- pain
- pique
- prejudice
- ruin
- shake up
- spoil
- sting
- tarnish
- torment
- torture
- total
- undermine
- vitiate
- wax
- weaken
- wound
- wrong
- Abaddon
- Gehenna
- Hades
- abyss
- affliction
- agony
- anguish
- bottomless pit
- difficulty
- everlasting fire
- fire and brimstone
- grave
- hell-fire
- infernal regions
- inferno
- limbo
- lower world
- misery
- nether world
- nightmare
- ordeal
- pandemonium
- perdition
- persecution
- pit
- place of torment
- purgatory
- suffering
- torment
- torture
- tortures of the damned
- trial
- underworld
- wretchedness
- aches
- agonies
- anguish
- anvil choruses
- bad news
- blues
- depressions
- desolation
- despair
- despondency
- discomforts
- distress
- dolors
- gloom
- griefs
- hardships
- headaches
- heartaches
- hurtings
- melancholies
- pangs
- passions
- sadness
- sorrows
- squalor
- stitches
- sufferings
- throes
- torments
- tortures
- twinges
- unhappiness
- woes
- worries
- worriments
- wretchedness
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