βασανίζειν (basanizein)

βασανίζειν is an Ancient Greek form of βασανίζω, meaning “test, torture”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 48 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero 3.2: ὃ δὲ δοκεῖ μάλιστα καὶ λέγεται τρόπον ἀνδρὸς ἐπιδεικνύναι καὶ βασανίζειν, ἐξουσία καὶ ἀρχὴ πᾶν πάθος κινοῦσα καὶ πᾶσαν ἀποκαλύπτουσα κακίαν, Δημοσθένει μὲν οὐχ ὑπῆρξεν, οὐδʼ ἔδωκε το …

All forms of βασανίζω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.