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pain vs torture

torture vs pain

pain and torture both are nouns.

pain and torture both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
pain Yes No Yes No
torture Yes No Yes No
As nouns, torture is a hyponym of pain; that is, torture is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pain:
  • pain: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
  • torture: unbearable physical pain
Other hyponyms of pain include ache, aching, agony, excruciation, suffering, arthralgia, burn, burning, causalgia, colic, gripes, griping, intestinal colic, chest pain, chiralgia, distress, dysmenorrhea, glossalgia, glossodynia, growing pains, keratalgia, labor pain, mastalgia, melagra, meralgia, metralgia, myalgia, myodynia, nephralgia, neuralgia, neuralgy, odynophagia, orchidalgia, pang, pang, sting, photalgia, photophobia, costalgia, pleuralgia, pleurodynia, podalgia, proctalgia, referred pain, renal colic, smart, smarting, smartness, sting, stinging, stitch, rawness, soreness, tenderness, thermalgesia, throb, torment, ulalgia, urodynia.
As verbs, torture is a hyponym of pain; that is, torture is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pain:
  • pain: cause emotional anguish or make miserable
  • torture: torment emotionally or mentally
Other hyponyms of pain include break someone's heart, agonise, agonize, try, excruciate, rack, torment.
pain (noun) torture (noun)
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder extreme mental distress
unbearable physical pain
pain (verb) torture (verb)
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed subject to torture
cause emotional anguish or make miserable torment emotionally or mentally
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