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.