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Adjective tortured has 2 senses
- tortured - subjected to intense pain; "hundreds of tortured prisoners"
Antonym: unpunished (indirect, via punished)
- anguished, tormented, tortured - experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation"
Antonym: joyful (indirect, via sorrowful)
Verb torture has 2 senses
- torment, torture, excruciate, rack - torment emotionally or mentally
--1 is one way to pain, anguish, hurt
Sample sentence:
The bad news will torture him
- torture, excruciate, torment - subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
--2 is one way to injure, wound
Sample sentence:
They want to torture the prisoners
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