tortured
Meaning of tortured
verb
- To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).
In the aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things that were right, but, we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values.
- Having been subjected to torture, mental or physical.
- Involving suffering and difficulty.
a tortured history
- Of literature, burdened by unnecessary complexity, obfuscation, abstruseness, etc.
tortured prose
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Hyphenation of tortured
tor-tured
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- tortured is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
tortured synonyms
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