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Webster 1913 Edition


Torturable

Tor′tur-a-ble

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Adj.
Capable of being tortured.

Definition 2024


torturable

torturable

English

Adjective

torturable (comparative more torturable, superlative most torturable)

  1. Capable of, or suitable for, being tortured.
    • 2000, John Conroy, Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture (page 27)
      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 []

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