[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.", "a method of inflicting such pain.", "Oftentortures.the pain or suffering caused or undergone.", "extreme anguish of body or mind; agony.", "a cause of severe pain or anguish."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to subject to .", "to afflict with severe pain of body or mind:My back is torturing me.", "to force or extort by torture:We'll torture the truth from his lips!", "to twist, force, or bring into some unnatural position or form:trees tortured by storms.", "to distort or pervert (language, meaning, etc.)."]}]