Infliction of severe physical pain as a means of punishment or coercion, Excruciating physical or mental pain; agony, In general, the act, operation, or process of inflicting excruciating pain, physical or mental, verb_ subject to torture, torment emotionally or mentally, transitive verb_ To punish with torture; to put to the rack, To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex, To subject (a person or animal) to torture,