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torturing

torturing noun: an act of torture. Also the present participle and gerund of torture.

Noun

torturing (countable and uncountable, plural torturings)

  1. An act of torture
    • ... sae little about the elect that are tried wi' hornings, chasings, catchings, imprisonments, torturings, banishments, headings, hangings, dismemberings, and quarterings quick...1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VIII, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]...
    • Terrible shall the vengeance of the Tisroc be: even now. But kill me, and the burnings and torturings in these northern lands shall become a tale to frighten the world a thousand years hence.1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

Also used as

torturing is also the present participle and gerund of torture.

Forms of torturing

Adjective
comparativemore torturing
superlativemost torturing
Noun
pluraltorturings

Words formed from torturing

Questions about torturing

What does torturing mean?
Torturing means an act of torture.
What part of speech is torturing?
Torturing is a noun.
What is the plural of torturing?
The plural of torturing is torturings.

Words near torturing in the dictionary

  1. torturesome
  2. torturess
  3. torturesses
  4. torturest
  5. tortureth
  6. torturing
  7. torturingly
  8. torturings
  9. torturous
  10. torturously
  11. tortury

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