Torture
Crossword Clue and Answers

Looking for answers to the "Torture" crossword clue? it's your lucky day, we have them! Today we have 14 crossword solutions for Torture.

We most recently saw this clue in The Daily Mail Smallest Hardest.

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Publications

  • The Daily Mail Smallest Hardest - Sunday, 11 Jul 2021
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Friday, 14 May 2021
  • The Daily Mail Quick - Thursday, 7 Jan 2021
  • The Daily Mail Smallest Hardest - Wednesday, 11 Nov 2020
  • The Daily Mail Quick - Thursday, 23 Aug 2018

Crossword Answers

3 letters

GYP
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

GIP
Deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

4 letters

RACK
A rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately

5 letters

AGONY
Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"

6 letters

ORDEAL
A primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence

7 letters

ANGUISH
Extreme mental distress

TORMENT
The act of harassing someone

8 letters

TWISTING
The act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting"

9 letters

TORTURING
Extremely painful

STRAINING
An intense or violent exertion

PERSECUTE
Cause to suffer; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union"

10 letters

DISTORTION
The mistake of misrepresenting the facts

EXCRUCIATE
Subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"

14 letters

OVERREFINEMENT
The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean