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Torture vs Behell - What's the difference?

torture | behell |

As verbs the difference between torture and behell

is that torture is while behell is (ambitransitive) to torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).

torture

English

(wikipedia torture)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony.
    • Using large dogs to attack bound, hand-cuffed prisoners is clearly torture .
    In every war there are acts of torture that cause the world to shudder.
    People confess to anything under torture .
  • (chiefly, literary) The "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships.
    • Every time she says 'goodbye' it is torture !

    Derived terms

    * torture chamber *

    Related terms

    * * tort * torta

    Verb

    (tortur)
  • To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).
    • People who torture often have sadistic tendencies.

    Derived terms

    * *

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    behell

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).
    • Did behell and rack him ? Hewyt.
  • *1936 , Frederick Walker Mott, Archives of neurology and psychiatry :
    • Thus a mechanic who feels himself electrically influenced speaks of "brain-kilowatt-hours", or a resistive patient talks of "behelling " injections.
  • *2006 , Philangi Dasa, Swedenborg the Buddhist :
    • I have seen them behell a saint for ignorantly drinking an alcoholic drink. Beshrew the sanctimonious riffraff!