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TORTURING

9 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What TORTURING Means

  1. 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“it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession”
  2. adjective: extremely painful

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

TORTURING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as T1 O1 R1 T1 U1 R1 I1 N1 G2.

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