1
[ adjective ] subjected to intense pain

Examples

"hundreds of tortured prisoners"

Related terms

punished

2
[ adjective ] experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

Synonyms

tormented anguished

Examples

"an anguished conscience" "a small tormented schoolboy" "a tortured witness to another's humiliation"

Related terms

sorrowful

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Rhymes with

orchard structured fractured ruptured cultured enraptured pictured featured textured manufactured indentured punctured denatured sculptured

Phonetic and Homophones

T AO1 R CH ER0 D

Similar Spelling

torture torturer torturesome torturous torturing tortricid tortrix Tortora torturously Tortricidae

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