the act of causing great physical or mental pain in order to persuade someone to do something or to give information , or to be cruel to a person or animal
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1. No torture would make him speak. 任何严刑拷打都不能使他开口。 2. Through those long years of imprisonment and torture, he remained faithful and unyielding. 在那些遭受囚禁和酷刑的漫长岁月里,他始终坚贞不屈。