Meaning

3 senses
  1. Having been subjected to torture, mental or physical.

  2. Involving suffering and difficulty.

    a tortured history

  3. Of literature, burdened by unnecessary complexity, obfuscation, abstruseness, etc.

    tortured prose

More definitions
  • experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

Forms

more tortured, most tortured
Comparativemore tortured Lesson
Superlativemost tortured Lesson

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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