tortured

[US]/'tɔrtʃɚd/

Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. subjected to physical or mental suffering; experiencing extreme pain or anguish

mentally tortured

physically tortured

he was tortured by grief.

tortured by painful emotions.

They tortured the man to make him confess his crime.

There were several problems which tortured the elderly man.

she saw the insults as emanations of his own tortured personality.

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