Pharmacological torture is the use of drugs to produce psychological or physical pain or discomfort.

I had surveyed the students in my school, and seen nothing there to produce discomfort.

Their venom is rarely fatal to healthy humans, but some species have enough venom to produce extreme discomfort for over a period of several days.

Energy conservation in our homes is another way that the world's huge waste of commercial energy can be reduced without actually producing discomfort for anybody.

The latter plan, he claimed, would have intensified the heat and produced psychological discomfort, a comment he does not elucidate.

Areas of the cortex that deal with pain become overexcited, producing intense discomfort that does not respond to drugs.

"The whole idea is to get physically and emotionally close to the subjects," he said, even if that produces initial discomfort on both sides.

Eating too much can easily produce abdominal discomfort and a feeling of being stuffed or bloated.

"Nothing fatal, or even producing physical discomfort," Kiera said quickly, trying to recover her gaffe.