Word.ws English Dictionary

bamboo torture

bamboo torture noun: an apocryphal Asian form of torture where a bamboo shoot is allowed to grow through a restrained victim's body, piercing it and eventually emerging on the other side.

Noun

bamboo torture (uncountable)

  1. An apocryphal Asian form of torture where a bamboo shoot is allowed to grow through a restrained victim's body, piercing it and eventually emerging on the other side.

Questions about bamboo torture

What does bamboo torture mean?
Bamboo torture means an apocryphal Asian form of torture where a bamboo shoot is allowed to grow through a restrained victim's body, piercing it and eventually emerging on the other side.
What part of speech is bamboo torture?
Bamboo torture is a noun.

Words near bamboo torture in the dictionary

  1. bamboo rats
  2. bamboo shark
  3. bamboo sharks
  4. bamboo shoot
  5. bamboo shoots
  6. bamboo torture
  7. bamboo vine
  8. bamboo vines
  9. bamboo wife
  10. bamboo wives
  11. bamboo worm

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bamboo torture (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bamboo torture.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bamboo_torture. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.