言葉責め

ことばぜめ

verbal abuse

言責

げんせき

responsibility for one's words

責める

せめる

to condemn, to blame, to criticize, to criticise, to reproach, to accuse

責め立てる

せめたてる

to torture severely, to urge

と言って

といって

however, because, as

責め

せめ

persecution, blame, responsibility

責め詰る

せめなじる

to question critically; to cross-examine

責め落とす

to press (someone to do something)

と言っても

といっても

although I say, although one might say, although called

かと言って

かといって

having said that, on the other hand

責め付ける

せめつける

to heap blame upon

吊るし責め

つるしぜめ

strappado

水責め

みずぜめ

water torture

蛇責め

へびぜめ

torture in which the victim is bound and placed in a tub of snakes

火責め

ひぜめ

torture by fire

責め具

せめぐ

instrument of torture

俵責め

たわらぜめ

Edo-period form of torture in which criminals were stuffed into straw bags with their heads exposed, piled together, and whipped (commonly used on Christians)

現責め

うつつぜめ

sleep deprivation (as a form of torture)

責め苦

せめく

torture, pains (of hell)