| noun | extreme mental distress |
| noun | unbearable physical pain |
| noun | intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain “an agony of doubt” |
| noun | the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean |
| noun | 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 “it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession” |
| verb | torment emotionally or mentally |
| verb | subject to torture “The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible” |
| anguish | verb | suffer great pains or distress |
| torment | verb | torment emotionally or mentally |
| torture | verb | torment emotionally or mentally |
| torturous | adjective | extremely painful |
| agonal | adjective | pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies) |
| agonist | noun | the principal character in a work of fiction |
| agonise | verb | cause to agonize |
| distort | verb | make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story |
| overrefine | verb | refine too much or with excess of subtlety |
| twist | verb | practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive |
| torment | noun | intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain |
| tormenter | noun | someone who torments |
| tormentor | noun | someone who torments |
| torture | noun | intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain |
| torturer | noun | someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for punishment or coercion) |
| excruciation | noun | a state of acute pain |
| rack | noun | an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims |
| torturing | noun | 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 |