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Discover Ludwig"torture device" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe any object or mechanism designed or used to inflict pain or suffering on someone as a means of punishment or coercion. Example: The medieval dungeon was filled with various torture devices, including an iron maiden, a rack, and a branding iron.
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After all, Jesus was tortured -- in fact, his torture device is now the ubiquitous symbol of the religion itself.
The cross is a torture device.
The piece is a medieval torture device for string players.
Our abject dependence on such a multifaceted torture device?
"In Wulff's case the sharp blade of free speech became a torture device," Mr Steinbrück concludes.
Rack, a bedlike open frame suspended above the ground that was used as a torture device.
One man's comfortable chair at Ben Benson's is another man's torture device.
Beneath Mr. Reed's unblinking recitation, Metallica's serrated guitars and drums churn like a torture device.
She is manacled in warm, chubby fists; her own name becomes a torture device — "Pearl!
The Lexington line "is God's own torture device," Ms. Atwell said.
No, this isn't a torture device from the horror film "Nightmare on Elm Street".
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