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Torture

Matched in: Term Torture

Forcipation

Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers

Pretorture

To torture beforehand

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Self torture

Matched in: Term Self torture

Discruciate

To torture to excruciate

Excruciating

Torturing racking

Excruciate

Excruciated tortured

Rack

Rack, an engine of torture, said not to have been used in England since 1640. See TORTURE. Means an instrument of torture on

Cruelty

(Penal Code, 1860, s. 498A) For the purposes of constituting the offence need not be physical. Even mental torture or abnormal behaviour may amount to cruelty and harassment in a given case, Gananath Pattnaik v. State of

Devil on the neck

Devil on the neck, an instrument of torture, formerly used to extort confessions, etc. It was made of several irons, which were fastened to the neck

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