torture
noun
the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
self-torturing
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a word derived from
torture.
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a word form of
self-torture.
self-torturenounthe act of torturing oneself; an activity causing extreme physical, mental, or emotional pain to oneself.
Example Sentences
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It was the voice of the self-torturing '20s, filled with a sort of sobjectivity that one critic described as "the authentic note of heartbreak," and it went over big.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the man on whom the archbishop smiled was Don Miguel Archibeque, longtime head of the self-torturing sect called Penitentes, which was officially banned by the church for almost 100 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
"He's incredibly insecure and very self-torturing," says Merrill Markoe, his former girlfriend, who helped create Late Night, devised such popular bits as Stupid Pet Tricks and wrote for the show until 1986.
From Time Magazine Archive
This magnificent piece of self-torturing logic sufficed to occupy him all the morning.
From The Crown of Life by George Gissing
In the noisy darkness of the long nights at sea, when the clanging of the piston kept him wakeful, he had again and again reviewed these griefs with a self-torturing persistence.
From Masterman and Son by W. J. (William James) Dawson
