Definition of "waterboarding" []

• A type of torture technique in which the victim is immobilized, has towels or rags wrapped over their face, and has water poured onto them, which simulates the sensation of drowning. (noun)

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• "I suspect for Olby, waterboarding is code for something else."
• "But taking him at his word, it appears that he wanted to remove issues such as waterboarding from the confirmation debate, even if he was not directly responsible for them."
• "Both of those cultures love torturers (just check out how the Spetznatz trains!) but in America torturing people (and waterboarding is torture, it is simulated drowning) is considered wrong by almost everybody, just like beating your wife is wrong."