Term: judicial torture: torture that is sanctioned by the state and executed by duly accredited officials
Candidate hypernym: act: something that people do or cause to happen → 1
Candidate hypernym: strainer: a filter to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through → 0
Candidate hypernym: amphibrach: a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember') → 0
Candidate hypernym: decree nisi: a decree issued on a first petition for divorce; becomes absolute at some later date → 0
Candidate hypernym: planula: the flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates → 0
Candidate hypernym: active agent: chemical agent capable of activity → 0
Candidate hypernym: gopher snake: bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows → 0
Candidate hypernym: eyeglass wearer: a person who wears spectacles in order to see better → 0
Candidate hypernym: reynard: a conventional name for a fox used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox' → 0
Candidate hypernym: renal artery: an artery originating from the abdominal aorta and supplying the kidneys and adrenal glands and ureters → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus salpa: type (perhaps sole) genus of the Salpidae → 0