Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TORT'URE
TORT'URE, v.t.
- To pain to extremity; to torment.
- To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.
- To vex; to harass. Addison.
- To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Not in use.] Bacon.
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