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English Dictionary: tortured by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tortured
adj
  1. experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation"
    Synonym(s): anguished, tormented, tortured
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Torture \Tor"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tortured} ([?]; 135);
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Torturing.}] [Cf. F. Torturer. ]
      1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
  
      2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture
            an accused person. --Shak.
  
      3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. --Jar.
            Taylor.
  
      4. To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Obs.]
  
                     The bow tortureth the string.            --Bacon.
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