What's the difference between experiencing and torture?

Experiencing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exrerience

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anesthesiology residency programs experienced unprecedented growth from 1980 to 1986.
  • (2) A 61-year-old man experienced four bouts of pancreatitis in 1 year.
  • (3) The younger patients more often experienced an acute arthritis with sacroiliitis resembling a reactive disease.
  • (4) Febrile reactions were not distributed randomly among the patients; those with respiratory tract infection experienced more febrile reactions during periods with infection than during periods without.
  • (5) One patient had amelioration of his symptoms, 5 experienced no change and in 5 their symptoms became worse.
  • (6) The patient experienced an uneventful recovery and at the 6-week follow-up, the pelvic organs were within the normal limit and all wounds had healed.
  • (7) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
  • (8) We report the case of a premature infant, small for gestational age, who experienced rostral herniation of a portion of frontal lobe through the anterior fontanel as the result of a hemorrhagic cerebellar infarction followed by a large parieto-occipital intracerebral hemorrhage.
  • (9) All four active treatment groups also experienced significantly more relief of pelvic-abdominal pain compared with placebo: piroxicam 40 mg for two days followed by three days of 20 mg (p = 0.002), piroxicam 40 mg for one day followed by four days of 20 mg (p = 0.023), piroxicam 20 mg for five days (p = 0.012), and ibuprofen (p = 0.011).
  • (10) The patient had experienced repeated spontaneous fractures for 1.5 years such as serial rib fractures, fractures of the sternum and most recently fracture of the neck of the femur after a minimal trauma.
  • (11) The University of the Arts London and Sunderland, Sheffield Hallam, Manchester Met and Leeds Met university have also experienced sharp declines in applications.
  • (12) The percentages of women in this population who were sexually experienced were the same in all 3 years (88% in 1975, 87% in 1986 and 87% in 1989).
  • (13) Recognised risk factors for stroke were found equally in those patients with and without severe events before onset, except that hypertension was rather less common in the patients who had experienced a severe event.
  • (14) Those with an increase of 15% in mean PEFR in the week on active treatment and who experienced subjective benefit should be supplied with a compressor.
  • (15) Dental patients were classified by experienced dentists as MPD or non-MPD patients.
  • (16) "It is difficult to imagine the torment experienced by the vulnerable victims of crimes such as these.
  • (17) It is likely that the severe thrombocytopenia experienced by our patient was caused by a single dose of plicamycin.
  • (18) The effect of pH neutralization on the pain experienced during intradermal lidocaine administration was investigated in a prospective blind study of 20 adult volunteers.
  • (19) It may unsettle Exxon Mobil a little but they are pretty experienced now and I don’t think they would derail anything,” she said.
  • (20) Qualitative and quantitative comparisons between the short and the long time interval studies were performed by four experienced observers.

Torture


Definition:

  • (n.) Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
  • (n.) Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.
  • (n.) The act or process of torturing.
  • (v. t.) To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
  • (v. t.) To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.
  • (v. t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.
  • (v. t.) To keep on the stretch, as a bow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The denial of justice to victims of British torture, some of which Britain admits, is set to continue.
  • (2) Hayden had argued that the harsher interrogation techniques had provided valuable information and said that the techniques did not amount to torture.
  • (3) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
  • (4) "Consider this, all six or so hours of his Champions League finals would have been torture."
  • (5) Lastly, sexually tortured women manifest greater psychological and sexual dysfunction.
  • (6) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
  • (7) And it means the Foreign Office dealing with those in the Middle East and North Africa who are on the side of democracy and human rights, not sitting down to tea with torturers.
  • (8) In a 2012 study submitted to the UN, the Petersburg-based centre alleged that Roma and migrants were routinely subjected to police torture .
  • (9) His torturous journey for a safer life has led to no life .
  • (10) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
  • (11) But under his government the security forces killed more than 2,000 people, and an estimated 25,000 people were detained without trial and often tortured.
  • (12) Limits are a relief, because they concentrate the drama and free the writer from the torture of choice, as Aristotle knew when he advised playwrights to preserve "the unities" by telling one story in one place over a single day.
  • (13) Sometimes the way the MP [military policeman] holds the head chokes me, and with all the nerves in the nose the tube passing the nose is like torture,” Dhiab said in a legal filing.
  • (14) Diego Garcia guards its secrets even as the truth on CIA torture emerges Read more The long-awaited decision – expected to cause enormous disappointment – follows more than 40 years of campaigning, court cases and calls for the UK to right a wrong committed by Harold Wilson’s Labour government.
  • (15) In his letter Abd El Fattah highlights the arbitrary nature of many of their detentions, the torture to which thousands have probably been subjected – and the apathy towards, and often enthusiasm for, such malpractice among the public.
  • (16) The consequences for Syria have been multiple massacres, ethnic cleansing, torture, a humanitarian crisis and the risk of the country's breakup.
  • (17) While ruling that there had been improper use of Schedule 7 powers, the judge commented: "It was clear that the Security Service, for entirely understandable reasons, was anxious if possible to get information which could not be regarded as tainted by torture allegations or which might confirm the propriety of a control order."
  • (18) All the personality, dignity and humanity of a person are devastated by this torture.
  • (19) You had to let it crash over you.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Miles’s life was torture’ … Lu Spinney at home.
  • (20) Davis said he would be surprised if an incoming Conservative government did not set up an immediate inquiry into this case and others where Britain is alleged to have been involved in the secret rendering by the US of detainees to prison where they were likely to be tortured.

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