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torture

/ˈtoɹt͡ʃɚ/ verbe B2

En français : torturer

  1. To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone), usually with the aim of forcing confessions or punishing them. (transitive) · People who torture often have sadistic tendencies.

He/she/it tortures · Prétérit tortured · Participe passé tortured · Forme en -ing torturing

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Forme en -ing
torturing

Dans la bibliothèque

You know not, you can scarcely conceive, how they have tortured me; though it was some time, I confess, before I was reasonable enough to allow their justice.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 345 · B2
It is my mind and soul that he has tortured and defiled.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 197 · C1
“Father,” said Mercédès, stopping when she had reached the centre of the table, “sit, I pray you, on my right hand; on my left I will place him who has ever been as a brother to me,” pointing with a soft and gentle smile to Fernand; but her words and look seemed to inflict the direst torture on him, for his lips became ghastly pale, and even beneath the dark hue of his complexion the blood might be seen retreating as though some sudden pang drove it back to the heart.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 24 · C1
Then the first pangs of an unending torture seized upon his heart.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 85 · C1

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