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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151. Having murdered about 10,000 of their citizens, and tortured many more, Argentina's military rulers embarked on an almost kid-glove "liberation" of "their" Islas Malvinas.
152. Though he was tortured to make him change his religion, the prisoner would not recant.
153. His youngest son, Gregory, a tortured transvestite who eventually changed sex, once called his father "a gin-soaked monster".
154. It was put up in wuld times by the relations of a malefactor who was tortured there by nailing his hand to a post and afterwards hung.
155. The pollard willows were tortured out of their natural shape by incessant choppings.
156. This may seem surprising to those who associate suicide with tortured geniuses like Ernest Hemingway and Vincent Van Gogh.
157. Ja-kyung was being tortured by her foster family because she fell in love with her uncle.
158. Mr Brewer, a white supremacist, was about to be executed for a murder committed in 1998, when he and two other men tortured a black man, James Byrd Jr,[http://sentencedict.com/tortured.html] and dragged him to death behind a truck.
159. It was high time, for I now began to be tortured with thirst.
160. A journalist visiting a working archaeological site usually can count on a grand tour of the "dig", a tortured plot of ground covered with grid markers, tools and heaps of dirt waiting to be screened.
161. He thus typified the constant introspection wherewith he tortured, but could not purify himself.
162. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
163. Many a time afterwards had Hester been tortured, though less vividly, by the same illusion.
164. So, I was tortured clothes messy, be at one's last gasp.
165. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
166. Some small fry were tortured in the Tower and, tainted by Percy, the Earl of Northumberland was imprisoned there until 1621.
167. Veteran leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, tortured and jailed in his native Egypt.
168. The Nicaraguan contras, whom we armed in the 1980s to terrorize the Marxist government, instead terrorized civilians, whom they tortured and killed in large numbers.
169. A young girl has a tortured night terror about growing up, learning, and reciting the alphabet.
170. Their inmost soul is tortured by an agony of passion.
171. Caught by the secret police in 1950 while on an undercover mission to Prague, he was tortured and then served 14 years in a labour camp.
172. All I want to stress is that my discovery of her was a fatal consequence of that "princedom by the sea" in my tortured past.
173. Shiner is already pursuing a series of legal actions for former detainees allegedly killed or tortured by British forces in Iraq.
174. For example, a CTU agent in a Season 3 episode is mistakenly accused of being a traitor, then tortured with a stun gun.
175. The film depicts King George VI, father of England's Queen Elizabeth, as a reluctant leader tortured by his stuttering.
176. The Saudi Arabian authorities regularly hold detainees incommunicado, when they are frequently tortured and otherwise ill - treated.
177. The setting is Baku in 1920, in the last tortured months of a brief utopian period in that city when people of all nationalities and religions lived in harmony.
178. The surviving leaders of the conspiracy were tortured in prison to make them confess.
179. They focuse on experimental vocal structures, hard - as - iron beats, complex rhythms, dark atmospherics, and tortured electronic noise.
180. The characters are mostly tortured, unsympathetic, larger-than-life guys created with the help of a tiny club of A-list directors, most notably Martin Scorsese.
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