JUDICIAL TORTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does judicial torture mean? 

• JUDICIAL TORTURE (noun)
  The noun JUDICIAL TORTURE has 1 sense:

1. torture that is sanctioned by the state and executed by duly accredited officials

  Familiarity information: JUDICIAL TORTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUDICIAL TORTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Torture that is sanctioned by the state and executed by duly accredited officials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the English renounced judicial torture in 1640

Hypernyms ("judicial torture" is a kind of...):

torture; torturing (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)