Meaning of اذیت in English

To favor; to grace.
Grace; favor.
Violent contest or striving.
Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
The last struggle of life; death struggle.
Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain.
A woman who torments.
Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.
The act or process of torturing.
To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.
To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.
To keep on the stretch, as a bow.