tortured
Having been subjected to torture, mental or physical.
Other meanings
Involving suffering and difficulty.
“a tortured history”
Of literature, burdened by unnecessary complexity, obfuscation, abstruseness, etc.
“tortured prose”
Related words
- semitortured
- torturedly
- torturedness
- untortured
- tortured phrase
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