folteren
Meaning
- (transitive) to torture
- (transitive) to torment, to agonize
Concepts
torture
torment
agonize
excruciate
Frequency
Hyphenated as
fol‧te‧ren
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfɔltərə(n)/
Etymology
Borrowed from German foltern, probably from Latin poletrus.
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