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adjectivetorturable (comparative more torturable, superlative most torturable)
comparative more torturable · superlative most torturable
- Capable of, or suitable for, being tortured.
The torturable class, initially limited to slaves, could be whipped, beaten with rods or chains, stretched on the rack, exposed to red-hot metal, confined in quarters that required painful constriction of their bodies […]
2000, John Conroy, Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture, page 27
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