| tor | (noun) a high rocky hill | - |
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| (noun) a prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill | - |
| torch | (noun) a small portable battery-powered electric lamp | Synonyms: flashlight |
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| (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowlamp, blowtorch |
| (noun) a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance | - |
| (noun) tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches | Synonyms: Aaron's rod, common mullein, flannel mullein, great mullein, Verbascum thapsus, woolly mullein |
| (verb) burn maliciously, as by arson | - |
| torchbearer | (noun) a leader in a campaign or movement | - |
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| torchlight | (noun) light from a torch or torches | - |
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| tore | (noun) commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column | Synonyms: torus |
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| toreador | (noun) someone who fights bulls | Synonyms: bullfighter |
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| torero | (noun) a matador or one of the supporting team during a bull fight | - |
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| torment | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: badgering, bedevilment, worrying |
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| (noun) a severe affliction | Synonyms: curse |
| (noun) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain | Synonyms: agony, torture |
| (noun) extreme mental distress | Synonyms: anguish, torture |
| (noun) a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented | Synonyms: harassment |
| (noun) unbearable physical pain | Synonyms: torture |
| (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: excruciate, torture |
| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: excruciate, rack, torture |
| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, rag |
| tormented | (adjective) experiencing intense pain especially mental pain | Synonyms: anguished, tortured |
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| (adjective) tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears | Synonyms: hag-ridden, hagridden |
| tormenter | (noun) a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings | Synonyms: teaser, tormentor |
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| (noun) someone who torments | Synonyms: persecutor, tormentor |
| tormentor | (noun) a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings | Synonyms: teaser, tormenter |
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| (noun) someone who torments | Synonyms: persecutor, tormenter |
| torn | (adjective) disrupted by the pull of contrary forces | - |
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| (adjective) having edges that are jagged from injury | Synonyms: lacerate, lacerated, mangled |
| tornado | (noun) a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive | Synonyms: crack, crack cocaine |
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| (noun) a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground | Synonyms: twister |
| tornillo | (noun) shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods | Synonyms: Prosopis pubescens, screw bean, screwbean, screwbean mesquite |
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| toroid | (noun) a ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle | Synonyms: torus |
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| (noun) the doughnut-shaped object enclosed by a torus | - |
| toroidal | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a toroid; doughnut shaped | - |
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| torpedo | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: crampfish, electric ray, numbfish |
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| (noun) armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target | - |
| (noun) a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead | - |
| (noun) a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully against a hard surface | - |
| (noun) an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas) | - |
| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, wedge, zep |
| (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, triggerman |
| (verb) attack or hit with torpedoes | - |
| torpid | (adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: dormant, hibernating |
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| (adjective) slow and apathetic | Synonyms: inert, sluggish, soggy |
| torpidity | (noun) inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy | Synonyms: listlessness, torpidness, torpor |
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| (noun) a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility | Synonyms: torpor |
| torpidly | (adverb) in a daze; in a dazed manner | Synonyms: dazedly |
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| torpidness | (noun) inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy | Synonyms: listlessness, torpidity, torpor |
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| torpor | (noun) inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy | Synonyms: listlessness, torpidity, torpidness |
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| (noun) a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility | Synonyms: torpidity |
| torque | (noun) a twisting force | Synonyms: torsion |
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| torr | (noun) a unit of pressure equal to 0.001316 atmosphere; named after Torricelli | Synonyms: millimeter of mercury, mm Hg |
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| torrent | (noun) a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: violent stream |
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| (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, waterspout |
| (noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundation |
| torrential | (adjective) relating to or resulting from the action of a torrent | - |
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| (adjective) pouring in abundance | - |
| (adjective) resembling a torrent in force and abundance | - |
| torrid | (adjective) extremely hot and dry | - |
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| (adjective) emotionally charged and vigorously energetic | - |
| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid |
| torridity | (noun) extreme heat | - |
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| torsion | (noun) a twisting force | Synonyms: torque |
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| (noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, crookedness, tortuosity, tortuousness |
| torsk | (noun) large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod | Synonyms: Brosme brosme, cusk |
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| torso | (noun) the body excluding the head and neck and limbs | Synonyms: body, trunk |
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| tort | (noun) (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought | Synonyms: civil wrong |
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| torte | (noun) rich cake usually covered with cream and fruit or nuts; originated in Austria | - |
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| tortellini | (noun) small ring-shaped stuffed pasta | - |
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| tortfeasor | (noun) a party who has committed a tort | Synonyms: tort-feasor |
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| torticollis | (noun) an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted | Synonyms: wryneck |
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| tortilla | (noun) thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour | - |
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| tortious | (adjective) of or pertaining to the nature of a tort | - |
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| tortoise | (noun) usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid areas except Australia and Antarctica | - |
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| tortoiseshell | (noun) a cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings | Synonyms: calico cat, tortoiseshell-cat |
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| (noun) brilliantly colored; larvae feed on nettles | Synonyms: tortoiseshell butterfly |
| (noun) the mottled horny substance of the shell of some turtles | - |
| tortricid | (noun) any of numerous small moths having lightly fringed wings; larvae are leaf rollers or live in fruits and galls | Synonyms: tortricid moth |
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| tortrix | (noun) small Indian moth infesting e.g. tea and coffee plants | Synonyms: Homona coffearia, tea tortrix |
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| (noun) California moth whose larvae live in especially oranges | Synonyms: Argyrotaenia citrana, orange tortrix |
| tortuosity | (noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, crookedness, torsion, tortuousness |
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| tortuous | (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled |
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| (adjective) marked by repeated turns and bends | Synonyms: twisting, twisty, voluminous, winding |
| (adjective) not straightforward | - |
| tortuously | (adverb) in a tortuous manner | - |
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| (adverb) with twists and turns | - |
| tortuousness | (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complicatedness, complication, knottiness |
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| (noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, crookedness, torsion, tortuosity |
| torture | (noun) 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 | Synonyms: torturing |
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| (noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | Synonyms: distortion, overrefinement, straining, twisting |
| (noun) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain | Synonyms: agony, torment |
| (noun) extreme mental distress | Synonyms: anguish, torment |
| (noun) unbearable physical pain | Synonyms: torment |
| (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: excruciate, torment |
| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: excruciate, rack, torment |
| tortured | (adjective) experiencing intense pain especially mental pain | Synonyms: anguished, tormented |
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| torturer | (noun) someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for punishment or coercion) | - |
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| torturesome | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous |
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| torturing | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturous |
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| (noun) 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 | Synonyms: torture |
| torturous | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing |
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| torturously | (adverb) in a very painful manner | Synonyms: agonizingly, excruciatingly |
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| torulose | (adjective) of a cylindrical or ellipsoid body; swollen and constricted at intervals | - |
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| torus | (noun) commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column | Synonyms: tore |
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| (noun) a ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle | Synonyms: toroid |