suffering vs torture

suffering and torture both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
suffering	Yes	Yes	No	No
torture	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, torture is a hyponym of suffering; that is, torture is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than suffering:

Other hyponyms of suffering include agony, torment, throes, discomfort, irritation, soreness.

As nouns, torture is a hyponym of suffering; that is, torture is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than suffering:

Other hyponyms of suffering include anguish, torment, self-torment, self-torture, tsoris, wound.

suffering (noun)	torture (noun)
feelings of mental or physical pain	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
psychological suffering	the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
a state of acute pain	intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
misery resulting from affliction	extreme mental distress
	unbearable physical pain

suffering (adjective)	torture (adjective)
troubled by pain or loss
very unhappy; full of misery

suffering (verb)	torture (verb)
	subject to torture
	torment emotionally or mentally