extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.-especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.-the act or process of torturing.-to put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.-to punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.-to wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.-to keep on the stretch, as a bow.