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. Human Rights Watch:

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

2. Brandi Glanville:

   We didn’t feel like we had to fight, it is like no other show on air. There is that therapy aspect to it, but we are also doing really fun things and going on dates and torturing each other. That is always fun.

3. Roberto Salinas Leon:

   Despite U.S. and international sanctions, Ortega continues to hail his rule as an outcome of democratic representation—torturing and jailing anyone who dares stands in his path, what is the proper response in the face of such defiance and the significant deterioration of U.S.-Nicaragua relations?.

4. Mona Hardin:

   They took pleasure in torturing my son. They took pleasure in hurting him, beating and killing him and letting him stay on the ground.

5. Oksana Markarova:

   [They’re] essentially torturing children, telling them to deny who they are and telling them that they are Russians.