torturable
adjEtymology From torture + -able.
1
Capable of, or suitable for, being tortured.
- The torturable class, initially limited to slaves, could be whipped, beaten with rods or chains, stretched on the rack, exposed to red-hot metal, confined in quarters that required painful constriction of their bodies […]2000, John Conroy, Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture, page 27:
- Antonyms
- untorturable