Read full poem →For this your locks in paper durance bound,
For this with torturing irons wreath'd around?
For this with fillets strain'd your tender head,
Dictionary Entry
To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).
In a Sentence
“In the aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things that were right, but, we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values.”
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Common Phrases
himself torturing
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Poetry examples for “torturing”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And hurled her down where the dead men stay.
A torturing silence of wan dismay --
Shrieks and curses of mad souls dying --
Read full poem →And yet she cannot waste by this,
Nor long bear this torturing wrong,
For more corruption needful is,
Read full poem →ANTISTROPHEPlunderer of Armies! lift thine eyes,
(A while forbear, ye torturing fiends;)
Seest thou whose step, unwilling, hither bends?
Read full poem →Or worser far, the pangs of keen remorse;
The torturing, gnawing consciousness of guilt,--
Of guilt, perhaps, where we've involved others;
Read full poem →Thou tamer of the human breast,
Whose iron scourge and torturing hour
The bad affright, afflict the best!
Read full poem →Form'd to delight, they use no foreign arms,
No torturing whalebones pinch them into charms;
No conscious blushes there their cheeks inflame,
Read full poem →'Mid its own bush of leafless eglantine--
Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know!