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;
"it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
Four armed robbers forced their way into a Long Island house where they tortured a woman with a hot iron, then made off with$5,000 in cash and jewelry, police said yesterday. 警方昨天说，四名挟带武器的强盗闯入长岛一户住宅，用烧热的熨斗折磨一位妇女，然后抢走了5000元的现金和珠宝。
