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Webster 1913 Edition
Torturable
Tor′tur-a-ble
,Adj.
Capable of being tortured.
Definition 2024
torturable
torturable
English
Adjective
torturable (comparative more torturable, superlative most torturable)
- Capable of, or suitable for, being tortured.
- 2000, John Conroy, Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture (page 27)
- The torturable class, initially limited to slaves, could be whipped, beaten with rods or chains, stretched on the rack, exposed to red-hot metal, confined in quarters that required painful constriction of their bodies […]
- 2000, John Conroy, Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture (page 27)