Of or pertaining to torture. / Painful, excruciating, torturing.

In a torturous fashion, or as if in torture

plural of torturing

Capable of, or suitable for, being tortured.

An upright stake on which people were nailed to be executed, especially that used to execute Jesus Christ according to the beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses.

plural of torture stake

A room equipped for carrying out torture.

plural of torture chamber

An apocryphal Asian form of torture where a bamboo shoot is grown through the victim's body, piercing it and eventually emerging on the other side.

(chess, colloquial, humorous) Synonym of Ruy Lopez