Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun falanga

1 sense of falanga

Sense 1
bastinado, falanga -- (a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels)
       => torture, torturing -- (the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession")