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Common collocations with torture in American Collocation

torture verb transitive

US /ˈtɔrtʃər/

badly

brutally
cruelly
horribly
mercilessly
savagely
severely
terribly

Jesus knows that in the next 24 hours he will be brutally tortured and executed.

regularly or thoroughly

repeatedly
routinely
systematically

Prisoners are routinely tortured, sometimes by immersion into boiling water.

in a way that affects someone’s mind

emotionally
mentally
psychologically

The 28 men were abducted from their homes then beaten and psychologically tortured.