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tortures

  • plural of torture.
  • present tense form of torture (3rd person singular).

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And Moore’s group, the Ukraine Freedom Project, last year launched a campaign called Russia Tortures Christians, with paid posts and videos on Facebook and Instagram.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2024

Between them came “Oh Mother, the Handsome Man Tortures Me,” an anonymous Iraqi lament added to the program in honor of ’s birthday, Mr. Harrington said.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2010

He discovers the Martyr and Confessor without the Tryal of Flames and Tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the Reward of Actions, which they had never the Opportunity of Performing.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

Com'st thou to mocke my Tortures with her Triumphs?

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

—And stirs there not already 'neath thy heart Another quick'ning pulse, that even now Tortures itself and thee With its foreboding presence?

From Faust — Part 1 by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von