torture

/ˈtɔːr.tʃɚ/

意味: 拷問、ひどい苦痛

例文: The wait was torture for Lena.
　　  待つことはレナにとって拷問だった。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: physical torture(身体的拷問), mental torture(精神的拷問), torture chamber(拷問部屋)

定義: 人を非常に苦しめる行為や方法。身体的または精神的に痛みを与えること。拷問は、情報を得るためや罰を与えるために使われることがあります。

tortureは約70,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: extreme mental distress
Noun: unbearable physical pain
Noun: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
Noun: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
Noun: 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
Verb: torment emotionally or mentally
Verb: subject to torture

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The prisoner suffered severe torture during the interrogation.(囚人は尋問中にひどい拷問を受けた。)
They condemned the use of torture in all circumstances.(彼らはあらゆる状況での拷問を非難した。)
Torture is illegal under international human rights laws.(拷問は国際人権法で違法とされている。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: an agony of doubt
Noun: the torments of the damned
Noun: it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession
Verb: The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): agony, anguish, distortion, excruciate, overrefinement, rack, straining, torment, torture, torturing, twisting

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): distress, falsification, injure, pain, persecution, suffering

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): ache, agonize, agony, anguish, arthralgia, break someone’s heart, bruise, burn, calk, causalgia, chest pain, chiralgia, colic, concuss, deception, disable, discomfort, distortion, distress, dysmenorrhea, equivocation, fracture, glossalgia, graze, growing pains, harm, hemorrhoid, keratalgia, knife, labor pain, lying, maim, mastalgia, melagra, meralgia, metralgia, myalgia, nephralgia, neuralgia, odynophagia, oppression, orchidalgia, pang, photalgia, pleurodynia, podalgia, pogrom, proctalgia, pull, referred pain, renal colic, rendition, run down, self-torture, shoot, skin, smart, sting, stitch, subluxate, tenderness, thermalgesia, throb, throes, torment, torture, trample, traumatize, try, tsoris, twist, ulalgia, urodynia, wound

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): bastinado, boot, burning, crucifixion, dismemberment, electric shock, genital torture, judicial torture, kia quen, kittee, martyr, nail pulling, picket, prolonged interrogation, rack, sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, strappado

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: agonal, agonise, agonist, anguish, distort, excruciation, overrefine, rack, torment, tormenter, tormentor, torture, torturer, torturing, torturous, twist

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive, emotional

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

英検準1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anger, anticipation, disgust, fear, negative, sadness