TORTURED
Dictionary entry overview: What does tortured mean? • TORTURED (adjective)
The adjective TORTURED has 2 senses:
1. subjected to intense pain
2. experiencing intense pain especially mental pain
Familiarity information: TORTURED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• TORTURED (adjective)
Meaning:
Subjected to intense pain
Context example:
hundreds of tortured prisoners
Similar:
punished (subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience))
Meaning:
Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain
Synonyms:
anguished; tormented; tortured
Context examples:
an anguished conscience / a small tormented schoolboy / a tortured witness to another's humiliation
Similar:
sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)
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