waterboarding

noun

wa·​ter·​board·​ing ˈwȯ-tər-ˌbȯr-diŋ 

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: an interrogation technique usually regarded as a form of torture in which water is forced into a detainee's mouth and nose so as to induce the sensation of drowning

Examples of waterboarding in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The 2014 report, which included vivid descriptions of unresponsive prisoners after waterboarding and others chained from bars in stress positions for long periods of time, shocked many but did not move Cheney. —Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2025

Cheney was an architect of the Bush administration’s war on terror and its secret detention program, defending the use of waterboarding and other interrogation techniques. —Max Goldbart, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2025

But Cheney – who was at the center of every facet of the global war on terrorism – insisted methods like waterboarding were perfectly acceptable. —Cnn, Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2025

His father was a dockworker, his mother a waitress whose cooking Welsh once compared to waterboarding. —Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

2004, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for waterboarding

• unrewarding
• according
• affording
• awarding
• keyboarding
• recording
• rewarding
• skateboarding
• snowboarding
• boarding
• cording
• fording