waterboarding

From waterboard +‎ -ing.

waterboarding (usually uncountable, plural waterboardings)

2. A torture technique in which the victim is immobilized, has towels or rags wrapped over their face, and has water poured onto them, causing them to experience the sensation of drowning.

From waterboard +‎ -ing.

waterboarding

1. present participle and gerund of waterboard

Unadapted borrowing from English waterboarding.

• IPA^(key): /wɔ.tɛrˈbɔr.diŋk/
• Rhymes: -ɔrdiŋk
• Syllabification: wa‧ter‧boar‧ding

waterboarding m inan or n (indeclinable)

1. waterboarding (a torture technique in which the victim is immobilized, has towels or rags wrapped over their face, and has water poured onto them, causing them to experience the sensation of drowning)
   • 2007 October 27, Tomasz Zalewski, “Kaci Wuja Sama”, in Polityka‎^{[pelcra-nkjp.clarin-pl.eu/ParagraphMetadata?pid=ec492d17e186e95ab39c2942c57fdc87&match_start=485&match_end=498&wynik=2#the_match]}, number 2626, Polityka - Spółdzielnia Pracy:

     Dzięki waterboarding, na przykład, wyciśnięto bezcenne zeznania z Chalida Szejka Muhameda, organizatora ataku 11 września i sadystycznego mordercy dziennikarza Daniela Pearla.

     Thanks to, for example, waterboarding, extracted invaluable confessions from Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and the sadistic murderer of journalist Daniel Pearl.

   • 2008 June 28, W.S., “Szejk w Kiejkutach”, in Polityka‎^{[pelcra-nkjp.clarin-pl.eu/ParagraphMetadata?pid=c8dc08a0a814be1145aed213d02516f8&match_start=66&match_end=82&wynik=27#the_match]}, number 2660, Polityka - Spółdzielnia Pracy:

     Podczas pobytu w Polsce Mohammed został ok. 100 razy poddany tzw. waterboardingowi, torturze polegającej na kontrolowanym topieniu.

     During his stay in Poland, Mohammed was subjected to so-called waterboarding, a torture method involving controlled drowning, approximately 100 times.

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