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See: badger, cruelty, endanger, inflict, infliction, irritate, mistreat, pique, plague, prey, punish TORTURE, punishments. A punishment inflicted in some countries on supposed
criminals to induce them to confess their crimes, and to reveal their
associates.
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| I realize now that I was building my own personal closet filled with torture devices of my own making. Hot on his trail is another government type, a cheerfully demonic functionary named Welch bearing an attache case full of torture devices, patriotic cookies and -- most significantly -- row upon row of American flags. Those engineer chaps live in a world that looks like a graveyard for hospital equipment, but buried amongst the spare and broken cot sides, electrical equipment and machinery that looks like ancient torture devices are people that know everything there is to know about medical equipment. |
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