Synonyms for torturing
tor·tur·ing

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1. torture, torturingadjective

   the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason

   "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"

   Synonyms:
   overrefinement, agony, torture, anguish, twisting, distortion, straining, torment

   Antonyms:
   painless

2. agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesomeadjective

   extremely painful

   Synonyms:
   harrowing, excruciating, agonising, torturesome, torturous, agonizing

   Antonyms:
   painless

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1. List of paraphrases for "torturing":

   torture, tortured

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1. El Pais newspaper:

   The torturing to death of an animal for entertainment is not a dignified tradition and gives a disgraceful image of Spain.

2. Natalia Cornelio:

   The government is essentially torturing people by doing this.

3. Human Rights Watch:

   Police are torturing criminal suspects to get them to confess to crimes and courts are convicting people who confessed under torture.

4. Dan Gainor:

   He tries to equate laws like voter ID, that are supported by the majority of every racial group, with genocide. What he is doing is covering for a nation that has a systematic program of beating, torturing, raping and murdering Uyghur Muslims. And he insanely compares that to America, the most free nation on Earth, eSPN, like its corporate owners Disney, has gone out of its way to kowtow to China.

5. Pastor Laurie:

   The Rome of Paul’s day was a much different place, nero was in power, probably the worst of the Caesars. He became progressively bloodthirsty and took perverse pleasure in torturing and murdering followers of Jesus Christ.