were torturing

Past progressiveconjugation oftorture.There are other translations for this conjugation.

torture

Devils and other animals were torturing people in all imaginable ways; and people were also torturing each other.	Animales y demonios torturaban a la gente en todas las formas imaginables, y las personas también se torturaban unas a otras.
They were torturing her the most.	Eran precisamente las que más le torturaban.
When they were torturing you, did you feel that they were observing you, carrying out experiments on you?	¿Tenía usted la impresión cuando le estaban torturando de que lo observaban, de queestaban experimentando con ustedes?
While they were torturing the teenager, they asked about the political activities of his father, of his mother and of two other family members, who are also members of the Grupo Internacionalista.	Mientras torturaban al adolescente le preguntaban sobre las actividades políticas de su papá, de su mamá y de otros dos familiares, estos últimos también militantes del Grupo Internacionalista.
While they were torturing me, they asked me questions about my son's political activities, and about my participation in the Partido por la Victoria del Pueblo (Party for the Victory of the People), to which, according to them, my son belonged.	Mientras se me tortura se me formulan preguntas sobre las actividades políticas de mi hijo y sobre mi participación en el Partido por la Victoria del Pueblo, al que, según ellos, mi hijo pertenecía.
The world learned of this only when in Iraq they were torturing hundreds of prisoners from a country invaded by the powerful forces of a colossal empire, and where hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians have lost their lives.	Y de eso se entera el mundo cuando allá en una cárcel en Iraq estaban torturando a cientos de prisioneros del país invadido con todo el poder de ese colosal imperio, y donde cientos de miles de civiles iraquíes han perdido la vida.