Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with torture in American Collocation
torture
verb
transitive
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What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
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.