waterboarding
a form of torture in which water is poured onto the face and head of the immobilized victim so as to induce a fear of drowning.
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How to use waterboarding in a sentence
A number of Japanese soldiers were criminally charged and convicted for waterboarding and otherwise torturing prisoners.
The Luxury Homes That Torture and Your Tax Dollars Built | Michael Daly | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe U.S. took a more serious view of waterboarding when it was done to Americans in World War II.
The Luxury Homes That Torture and Your Tax Dollars Built | Michael Daly | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey might have scored all that dough if word of the waterboarding had not leaked.
The Luxury Homes That Torture and Your Tax Dollars Built | Michael Daly | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI know of the waterboarding of the three guys pursuant to the August 2002 program.
CIA Interrogation Chief: ‘Rectal Feeding,’ Broken Limbs Are News to Me | Kimberly Dozier | December 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut there were no beatings, no waterboarding, no rough stuff at all.
British Dictionary definitions for waterboarding
/ (ˈwɔːtəˌbɔːdɪŋ) /
a form of torture in which the victim is immobilized and has water poured on his or her face, producing a severe gag reflex, to simulate drowning
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