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TORTURE

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torture I. substantiv

(şi fig.) tortură, chin; supliciu;

to put to the torture a supune la chinuri, a tortura, a chinui.

torture II. verb tranzitiv

1. a tortura, a chinui.

2. (fig.) a denatura (un text, sensul cuvintelor).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

What have I done to you that you should torture me so?

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Begone! I have answered you; you may torture me, but I will never consent.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then came your dear mother to torture me farther, with all her kindness and confidence.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

"Oh, Jane, you torture me!" he exclaimed.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

My body was stiff from exertion as well as from cold, and my aching muscles gave me the severest torture whenever I used them, and I used them continually.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Some of your servants were to have private orders to strew a poisonous juice on your shirts and sheets, which would soon make you tear your own flesh, and die in the utmost torture.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

I had suffered tortures all the time; and thought I really must have laid violent hands upon myself, when Miss Mills still reported to me, that my broken-hearted little Dora would say nothing, when I was mentioned, but Oh, poor papa!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I have blamed myself enough; my life's forfeit anyway, and I should have been dead by now if Silver hadn't stood for me; and doctor, believe this, I can die—and I dare say I deserve it—but what I fear is torture. If they come to torture me—

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

This idea was torture to him.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

So I said, as quietly as I could:—Don't wait more than need be; you know, I am sure, what torture I am in.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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