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Trio strung up in deliberately violent interrogations (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

torturings

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'deliberately violent interrogations' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are plural nouns, I cannot see how one could define the other.

'trio strung up' is the wordplay.
'up' indicates anagramming the letters (letters get chucked up).
'trio'+'strung'='triostrung'
'triostrung' with letters rearranged gives 'TORTURINGS'.

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