Term: bastinado: a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
Broader: torture: 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 | Unrelated: pappus: calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions
Broader: torture: 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 | Unrelated: angiocardiogram: a series of X rays representing the action of the heart and its blood vessels after the injection of a radiopaque substance
Broader: torture: 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 | Unrelated: degree centigrade: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
Broader: torture: 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 | Unrelated: racket: a loud and disturbing noise
Broader: torture: 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 | Unrelated: prosody: the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
Broader: torture: 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 | Unrelated: malpighia: type genus of the Malpighiaceae
Broader: torture: 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 | Unrelated: psychopsis papilio: orchid of South America and Trinidad having large yellow and reddish-brown flowers; sometimes placed in genus Oncidium
Broader: torture: 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 | Unrelated: sea holly: European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coast; roots formerly used as an aphrodisiac
Broader: torture: 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 | Unrelated: torture: unbearable physical pain