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

1 sense of nail removal

Sense 1
nail pulling, nail removal -- (a form of torture in which the fingernails or toenails are removed)
       => 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")