Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense tortures, present participle torturing, past tense, past participle tortured
1VERB 拷打;拷问;虐待 If someone is tortured, another person deliberately causes them great pain over a period of time, in order to punish them or to make them reveal information. 拷打;拷问;虐待
French police are convinced that she was tortured and killed. [beVERB-ed]
法国警方确信她是被拷打致死。
Three members of the group had been tortured to death… [beVERB-ed]
该团体中有三个人被拷打致死。
They never again tortured a prisoner in his presence. [VERB noun]
3N-UNCOUNT [oft aNOUN]折磨;痛苦;苦恼;引起痛苦(或苦恼)的事物 If you say that something is torture or a torture, you mean that it causes you great mental or physical suffering. 折磨;痛苦;苦恼;引起痛苦(或苦恼)的事物 [informal]
Waiting for the result was torture.
等待结果的过程是一种折磨。
The friction of the sheets against his skin was torture…
被单摩擦着他的皮肤,简直像是酷刑。
Learning — something she had always loved — became a torture.