to torture (to intentionally inflict unnecessary pain or suffering on helpless victims) · to cause angst
çekim: geçmiş torturei · ortaç torturado · şimdiki tortura
köken: From tortura (“torture”) + -ar, from Latin tortūra (“twisting; torture”), from torqueō (“to twist”), from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn”).
to torture (intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on) · to torture, torment, rack, be killing (cause severe suffering to) · to torment, rack (cause mental suffering to)
çekim: geçmiş βασάνισα · ortaç έχοντας βασανίσει · şimdiki βασανίζει · ulaç βασανίζοντας
köken: From Ancient Greek βασανίζω (basanízō, “to examine, to investigate, put to the test”), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”) + -ίζω (-ízō, “verbal suffix”), literally “to test with touchstone”. The modern sense of "torture" developed from the association of investigations and inquisitions of prisoners with physical tortures.
köken: Inherited from Old Swedish pina, from Old Norse pína, from Latin poena, from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ). Cognate of Danish pine, Icelandic pína, German Pein. Compare origin of English pain, French peine.
aile: pest och pina, pinlig, pinoande, pinoläger, pinoredskap, pinsam