n.折磨，痛苦，拷问，拷打vt.拷问，曲解，折磨，使弯曲

英文释义

n. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

n. Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.

n. The act or process of torturing.

v. t. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.

v. t. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.

v. t. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

v. t. To keep on the stretch, as a bow.

词干

torture 拷问，拷打，折磨，痛苦
→ 来自拉丁语 tortus，扭曲的，扭成一团的，词源同 turn，torment.-ure，名词后缀。引词义拷问， 折磨。