Torture vs Wretchedness - What's the difference?
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Intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony.
(chiefly, literary) The "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships.
To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).
An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 3
A state of prolonged misfortune, privation or anguish.
Torture is a related term of wretchedness.
As a verb torture
is .As a noun wretchedness is
an unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.torture
English
(wikipedia torture)Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
- Every time she says 'goodbye' it is torture !
Derived terms
* torture chamber *Verb
(tortur)- People who torture often have sadistic tendencies.
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English
Noun
(en-noun)- She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation.