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torturable

torturable adjective: capable of, or suitable for, being tortured.

Adjective

torturable (comparative more torturable, superlative most torturable)

  1. Capable of, or suitable for, being tortured.
    • The torturable class, initially limited to slaves, could be whipped, beaten with rods or chains, stretched on the rack, exposed to red-hot metal, confined in quarters that required painful constriction of their bodies […]2000, John Conroy, Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture, page 27

Antonyms of torturable

Forms of torturable

comparativemore torturable
superlativemost torturable

Origin of torturable

From torture + -able.

Questions about torturable

What does torturable mean?
Torturable means capable of, or suitable for, being tortured.
What part of speech is torturable?
Torturable is an adjective.

Words near torturable in the dictionary

  1. tortuous
  2. tortuousity
  3. tortuously
  4. tortuousness
  5. tortuousnesses
  6. torturable
  7. torture
  8. torture chamber
  9. torture chambers
  10. torture porn
  11. torture stake

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