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

1 sense of kia quen

Sense 1
kia quen -- (a form of foot torture used by the Chinese in which the victim's foot was placed between three pieces of bamboo and systematically squeezed)
       => 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")