0 the act of causing great physical or mental pain in order to persuade someone to do something or to give information, or to be cruel to a person or animal: --
1 to cause great physical or mental pain to someone intentionally: --
If they catch him, they will torture him.
They were tortured until they revealed where the weapons were hidden.
He was tortured in prison.
Human rights campaigners have discovered documentary evidence of torture.
They used sleep deprivation as a form of torture.