Torture

1. n. The act or process of torturing.
2. n. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
3. n. Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.
4. v. t. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.