Torture
Crossword Clue and Answers
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We most recently saw this clue in The Daily Mail Smallest Hardest.
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Publications
- The Daily Mail Smallest Hardest - Sunday, 11 Jul 2021
- Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Friday, 14 May 2021
- The Daily Mail Quick - Thursday, 7 Jan 2021
- The Daily Mail Smallest Hardest - Wednesday, 11 Nov 2020
- The Daily Mail Quick - Thursday, 23 Aug 2018
Crossword Answers
3 letters
GYP
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
GIP
Deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
4 letters
RACK
A rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
5 letters
AGONY
Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"
6 letters
ORDEAL
A primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence
7 letters
ANGUISH
Extreme mental distress
TORMENT
The act of harassing someone
8 letters
TWISTING
The act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting"
9 letters
TORTURING
Extremely painful
STRAINING
An intense or violent exertion
PERSECUTE
Cause to suffer; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union"
10 letters
DISTORTION
The mistake of misrepresenting the facts
EXCRUCIATE
Subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
14 letters
OVERREFINEMENT
The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean