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Suffering with a personal touch, delivered slowly and with intent.
means To inflict severe, ongoing physical or mental pain on someone, often deliberately and repeatedly.
from From Latin tormentum, a torsion-powered siege catapult — pain as a machine that twists, from torquere, to twist.
Mechanical rootOriginally named a rope-twisting war engine.
Twist familyShares ancestry with torque, torture, and contort.
Tense rangeSpans physical agony and quiet mental gnawing.