torturable

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English

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Etymology

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From torture +‎ -able.

Adjective

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torturable (comparative more torturable, superlative most torturable)

  1. Capable of, or suitable for, being tortured.
    • 2000, John Conroy, Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture, page 27:
      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 []

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