Definitions

1. noun

The act of subjecting a person to mental or physical torture as a means of inducing them to commit a crime or obtain information.

“The government faced allegations of cotorture to extract confessions from political prisoners.”

2. verb

To subject a person to mental or physical torture as a means of inducing them to commit a crime or obtain information.

“The interrogators were accused of cotorturing the suspect to extract a confession.”