Definition of Torture chamber

1. Noun. A room in which torture is inflicted.

Generic synonyms: Room

Lexicographical Neighbors of Torture Chamber

tortricid moth
tortricids
tortrix
tortrixes
torts
tortulous
tortuosities
tortuosity
tortuous
tortuous aorta
tortuously
tortuousness
tortuousnesses
torturable
torture
torture chamber (current term)
torture stake
torture stakes
tortured
torturedly
torturedness
torturer
torturers
tortures
torturesome
torturess
torturesses
torturest
tortureth
torturing

Literary usage of Torture chamber

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity by Society of Antiquaries of London (1838)
"In the castle at the latter place, I was shewn a torture chamber, ... The torture chamber at Saltzburg was situated in a small square tower. (Plate XVI. ..."

2. Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of John Howard, the Philanthropist by James Baldwin Brown (1823)
"Nor did the prisons of this city, or in any part of the Prussian dominions, contain a torture- chamber, Frederic the Great having humanely set the example ..."

3. Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia by Karl von Gebler (1879)
"a short final examination had to take place outside the torture chamber, at which the accused was told that he had better confess, or recourse will be had ..."

4. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1907)
"In another, when a few turns of thej/ garrote have twisted a single cord into his arm—or even at the mere aspect of the torture-chamber, with its grimly ..."

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