Similar words: torture, torturous, nurture, aperture, overture, departure, tortuous, departure time. Meaning: ['tɔrtʃə(r) /'tɔː-] adj. 1. subjected to intense pain 2. experiencing intense pain especially mental pain.
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61. It later emerged that prisoners at the camp were routinely tortured, and many executed.
62. I refer to the case of Mustapha Akkawi, who was killed after being tortured in prison just over a week ago.
63. She faced out to sea and saw nothing but the impression of Fernando's tortured features before her misty eyes.
64. Or that the hardest-working man in show business is also a tortured artist?
65. The President asked that it be CIA agent Buckley, but Buckley had by then been tortured to death.
66. I then expect I will be tortured, and if they see I don't die they will poison me.
67. Defence lawyers claimed that several injured defendants had been denied medical attention and that many others had been tortured while in custody.
68. There are a number of tortured perspectives on how to get round this problem, but they are themselves fraught with problems.
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69. He held the sleeping baby and was alternately happy and tortured with fear that something might happen to her.
70. Television reports of higher casualties could not be confirmed, and some accounts said that the policemen had been tortured and mutilated.
71. Her requests to inspect several detention centres where troops were alleged to have tortured prisoners were also ignored.
72. Every ten minutes or so she would hear the tortured scream of the transmission and randomly change gears.
73. Often they have been killed or tortured following mock trials.
74. Really, Tom, the way you're defending her, anyone would think I'd tortured the girl!
75. The cry of the tortured, the disillusioned, the faithless in the light of appalling suffering.
76. During the six and a half years of marriage, I was repeatedly beaten, terrorized, tortured and sexually molested.
77. They came from Williams' dysfunctional family, his tortured psyche and his repressed homosexuality.
78. He also understands the party machine, the smoke-filled rooms, the endless tortured resolutions and rule books.
79. The radio blurts out songs about being tortured by love for the wrong person.
80. The Kashmiri police say he was taken into custody as a suspect, tortured and shot in cold blood.
81. She refused to marry the local prefect who had her imprisoned and tortured.
82. His skull was filled with agony; but he lurched towards her, his tortured brain seeking her unwilling body's solace.
83. His jailers realized that his ransom would exceed those of the other prisoners, so Raymond was continuously tortured for preaching.
84. He was held in solitary confinement in the General Intelligence headquarters in Riyadh and was reportedly tortured.
85. They were tortured, humiliated and abused in gross contravention of the Geneva convention.
86. In the 1970s he was detained without charge or trial for five years and tortured and held for long periods in leg-irons.
87. When confronted with the messiah being humiliated, tortured and killed, Peter refuses to listen.
88. Mad faces pushed against the grilles in the doors, tortured ones begging for mercy.
89. He was tortured severely, stripped and manacled to a concrete cell floor.
90. Every day more and more badgers are being tortured and slaughtered.
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