Meaning of హింస in English

The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship.
The state or condition of being persecuted.
A carrying on; prosecution.
An engine for casting stones.
Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.
That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.
To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture.
To pain; to distress; to afflict.
To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.
To put into great agitation.
A rosaceous herb (Potentilla Tormentilla), the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea.
Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain.
Mischief; injury; calamity.
Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury.
Stretched tight; taut.
The quality or state of being tortile, twisted, or wreathed.
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.

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