- Ill-treatment - Infliction of pain - Torment with torch? Ah, so I’ve heard! - Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony;
torment; as, torture of mind. - 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. - The act or process of torturing. - To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to
vex.