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- noun Plural form of
torture .
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Examples
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The villain tortures, takes delight in others 'pain.
Was RapeLay 'Asking For It'? SVGL 2009
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Of all the things foisted upon us during the cheney-bush regime, turning us into a country that tortures is the absolute worst.
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It was late at night while they were huddled together waiting for further tortures from the enemy side, that they saw the wife of Hur coming towards them with food and water.
2006 October 13 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2006
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It was late at night while they were huddled together waiting for further tortures from the enemy side, that they saw the wife of Hur coming towards them with food and water.
Hazrat Imam Hussain..Maksade Hussain « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2006
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It was late at night while they were huddled together waiting for further tortures from the enemy side, that they saw the wife of Hur coming towards them with food and water.
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And anybody who tortures is guilty of committing an illegal act.
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He once said to a friend, It is perhaps rather interesting that the music to Pinafore, which was considered so merry and so sparkling, was written while I was suffering tortures from a cruel illness.
Gilbert and Sullivan 1932
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I’m trying to decide which I find more objectionable for a teen, Watchmen, or the issue of Catwoman where the villain tortures a character and then eats the victim’s extracted eyeball.
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Taguba concludes that the tortures were a result of:
Tortured Wrong Guys, Didn't Prevent Attacks, and Oh Yes, Helped Al Qaeda 2009
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"I can tell you that your deft ways and the sight of your sweet face have helped many a man to endure without a word tortures that have wrung his soul!
Steadfast Falters 1916
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