torture
US: /ˈtɔɹtʃɝ/
UK: /tˈɔːtʃɐ/
UK: /tˈɔːtʃɐ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
torture /'tɔ:tʃə/
- danh từ
- sự tra tấn, sự tra khảo
- to put someone to the torture: tra tấn ai
- instruments of torture: dụng cụ tra tấn
- cách tra tấn
- the tortures of ancient times: các cách tra tấn thuở xưa
- (nghĩa bóng) nỗi giày vò, nỗi thống khổ
- sự tra tấn, sự tra khảo
- ngoại động từ
- tra tấn, tra khảo
- (nghĩa bóng) hành hạ, làm khổ sở
- that news tortured me: tin ấy làm cho tôi khổ sở
- làm biến chất, làm biến dạng; làm sai lạc ý nghĩa, xuyên tạc
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun [U, C]
1 the act of causing sb severe pain in order to punish them or make them say or do sth: Many of the refugees have suffered torture. + the use of torture + terrible instruments of torture + His confessions were made under torture. + I heard stories of gruesome tortures in prisons.
2 (informal) mental or physical suffering; sth that causes this: The interview was sheer torture from start to finish.
+ verb [VN] [often passive]
1 to hurt sb physically or mentally in order to punish them or make them tell you sth: Many of the rebels were captured and tortured by secret police. + He was tortured into giving them the information.
2 to make sb feel extremely unhappy or anxious
Synonym: TORMENT
He spent his life tortured by the memories of his childhood.
torturer noun
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
brutal | systematic | mental, physical
VERB + TORTURE
inflict | suffer
TORTURE + NOUN
camp, chamber, room | victim
ADV.
badly, brutally, severely | routinely
The prisoners were routinely tortured.
PHRASES
torture sb to death
Concise English dictionary
tortures|tortured|torturing'tɔrtʃə(r) /'tɔː-
noun
+extreme mental distress
+unbearable physical pain
+intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
+the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
+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
verb
+torment emotionally or mentally
+subject to torture
