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 | a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake |
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | a wooden strip forming part of a fence |
intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain | a vehicle performing sentinel duty |
extreme mental distress | a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack |
unbearable physical pain | a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work |
| a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event |