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stress position
noun
- an enforced body position, applied esp in the interrogation of detainees, which causes the victim pain by concentrating a large amount of his or her weight on a small number of muscles, joints, etc
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In another, a prisoner is suspended naked upside down from the top bunk of a bed in a stress position.
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