JUDICIAL TORTURE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Torture that is sanctioned by the state and executed by duly accredited officials

Example:

the English renounced judicial torture in 1640

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("judicial torture" is a kind of...):

torture; torturing (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)

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