Torture vs Mistreatment - What's the difference?
torture | mistreatment |
Intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony.
(chiefly, literary) The "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships.
To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).
Improper treatment, abuse.
:The warranty was voided because the product experienced mistreatment during shipment, it hadn't been padded at all.
:There are severe allegations of mistreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, of actual toture.
As a verb torture
is .As a noun mistreatment is
improper treatment, abuse.torture
English
(wikipedia torture)Noun
(en noun)- Using large dogs to attack bound, hand-cuffed prisoners is clearly torture .
- In every war there are acts of torture that cause the world to shudder.
- People confess to anything under torture .
- Every time she says 'goodbye' it is torture !
Derived terms
* torture chamber *Verb
(tortur)- People who torture often have sadistic tendencies.
