The word 'torture' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the act of inflicting physical or mental suffering on a person or animal, or to refer to an experience that is incredibly unpleasant or difficult. For example: "The prisoners were subjected to horrifying acts of torture."
Human Rights Watch has documented 75 cases of torture in security force custody since the end of the war, including the rape of men and women.
A prophet's saying states: "Travel is a piece of torture".
Some of them love human dignity so much that they are ready to legalise torture to defend it.
Over the winter of 1937, Japanese troops in Nanjing unleashed a relentless onslaught of looting, burning, torture and murder.
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The toilets are routinely broken or lacking in number, and the conditions in one dormitory were so bad that Amnesty International "considers the accommodation of asylum seekers there a violation of the prohibition on torture and other ill-treatment".
On the basis of the new material uncovered, it will be contended that the ill-treatment suffered by the hooded men should be recognised as torture".
Word got round during the interval that it was down to the exquisite torture of penalties, and when the announcement was broadcast to "return to your seats as this evening's performance is about to continue" there was a groan of dismay.
Concern is mounting that British aid money may be funding programmes for police who are using rape as a tool of state-sanctioned torture against women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
In one woman's case, an FFT doctor documented 74 scars, 68 attributable to torture and 56 attributable to a specific incidence of gang rape.
Are you saying that victims of torture constitute a social group?" "Yes and no … well, yes," Ustinkin said.
