Meanings
- rareA place where torture is performed.
[In the evil Boodkeep,] near the hall that leads to the tortury, you see […]
2020 March 28, Dimension 20, "Bloodlines and Lifelines (Full Episode) - Escape From the Bloodkeep Episode 5", 1:27:162 more examples
"Ah," answered Jack on his own account, and with the openness for which he was distinguished, "you are afraid of little things. You were frighted of the tortury." "The tortury, indeed!" replied Monica, indignantly, "that is not a little thing, and at any rate I do not call a place a tortury because another place is named an armoury."
1882, Emily Marion Harris, The lieutenant, by the author of 'Estelle', page 142[…] Josh and Paxton visit the "Museum Tortury." Roth presents us with the ghoulish historical instruments of torture—the miniature guillotine used to “punch” visitors' tickets, the eighteenth-century Witch's Chair, the hanging cage, the hooded henchman—if nothing else, the[…]
2015 April 24, Aaron Michael Kerner, Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11: Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 115
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tortury. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tortury
“tortury.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tortury. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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