Ok here's mine...

[Torture] legal - the overt act of inflicting pain and/or the deprivation of stimuli necessary to the continued mental and physical health of the imprisoned or detained.

But big deal. At the present stage of our knowledge about the semantical delimitations of the meanings in our wordings, the only restraints that can be guaranteed against the misuse of any written edit is the establishment of a civilized and reasonable culture to do the constraining.

All else is fluff.