torture
ਤਸ਼ੱਦਦ
definition
verb
most of the victims had been brutally tortured
inflict severe pain on.
noun
In that memo, it was asserted that inflicting severe pain constituted torture only if the perpetrator knowingly acted for the express and sole purpose of causing agony.
the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain.
example
But there was no tribunal or court to punish international crimes of 'torture' .
It also increases the incidence of false confessions by placing the detainee in a situation where he or she may experience physical or mental 'torture' , or serious ill-treatment.
She filed a case of harassment under section 498A after suffering severe mental 'torture' .
Tear down the walls of self-consciousness in your mind, rip to shreds all the self-defeating messages you 'torture' yourself with all the time.
And, if he is particularly unlucky, he will end up with both the physical pain and the mental 'torture' .
When you get arrested, you are forced by beatings, 'torture' and threats to confess to crimes you didn't commit.
She wondered for how long this sound would continue to 'torture' and haunt her mind: she was not mad, but she believed that she soon would be.
I hope they care deeply about the fact that when we find suffering and 'torture' and mass graves, we weep for the citizens that are being brutalized by tyrants.
One of the issues in the case is whether what was described by him was severe enough to amount to persecution or 'torture' .
If we can help and inspire other people to see that you don't have to 'torture' people, you don't have to have oppressive regimes.
I had my car back, so there wouldn't be any long, silent, bus rides to 'torture' my mind with.
She poses the question: ‘If everyone could feel everyone else's pain who would 'torture' ?’
In that memo, it was asserted that inflicting severe pain constituted 'torture' only if the perpetrator knowingly acted for the express and sole purpose of causing agony.
She didn't know why, but she wanted Haley to take her in his arms and heal the pain and send away the agony and 'torture' she internally suffered.
the 'torture' of political prisoners
‘We see asylum seekers every day who tell us the most harrowing tales of the mental and physical 'torture' and trauma they've suffered,’ she said.
the 'torture' I've gone through because of loving you so
Some prison facilities… are notorious for the cruel and prolonged acts of 'torture' inflicted upon political opponents of the Government.
dances were absolute 'torture' because I was so small
She looked over to who was suffering the horrible 'torture' .
Even during the last mile I felt I had a lot more in me, though I can only imagine the pain and the mental 'torture' of doing the whole thing again.
A practice of 'torture' by police or prison authorities, either in the form of political persecution or in the context of Art 3 of the Convention, is attributable to the State.
Its officers wrote out false confessions and used 'torture' to force suspects to sign them.
There have been reports that security forces 'torture' persons in ‘ghost houses’.
Red Lights concerns an arguing couple who split up during a road trip, which leads to a horrific 24 hours wherein the alcoholic protagonist suffers all kinds of 'torture' trying to get back to his wife.
If you seek pleasure with disregard for others you're going down a dark, lonely, depressing slide into mental 'torture' a place where you wish you weren't born.
So why do we still 'torture' ourselves with constant obsessing about weight and appearance and dress sizes?
Arbitrary arrest, police beatings, 'torture' to extract confession, the persecution of defence lawyers, and the intimidation of witnesses are widespread.
The fight against those who 'torture' animals in the name of science has moved up a step and we must be ready to take our struggle forward.
confessions extracted under 'torture'
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