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torturings

torturings is the plural of torturing.

Meaning of torturing

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, […]...

Questions about torturings

What is torturings the plural of?
Torturings is the plural of torturing.

Words near torturings in the dictionary

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

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