Torture
nounid
144756·updated May 16, 2026“Torture” is retired. It does not tag in any document, it is excluded from the anchor pack, and it does not hold its lemma — so another term can take it.
deprecated
the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
polysemous
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Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
No variants recorded
This term has no surface-form variants in the lexicon yet, so it tags only its canonical form.
Framework definitions
- §1
- the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
- §2
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- §3
- intense feelings of suffering
- §4
- extreme mental distress
- §5
- unbearable physical pain
Outgoing relationships
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Incoming relationships
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