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Definition of Tortured
1. Adjective. Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain. "A tortured witness to another's humiliation"
Definition of Tortured
1. Verb. (past of torture) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tortured
1. torture [v] - See also: torture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tortured
Literary usage of Tortured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"A free man could be tortured only where he had been inconsistent in his depositions.
No one was to be chained in prison before trial, nor could a prisoner ..."
2. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin, John Allen (1816)
"... Adherents have most cruelly tyrannized over the Minds, and tortured the Bodies
of Men. VrE now proceed to the second branch of the power of the Church, ..."
3. The History of Paraguay: With Notes of Personal Observations, and by Charles Ames Washburn (1871)
"She causes many to be arrested and tortured. ... No other Proof than that of
tortured Witnesses. THE " declarations" that were sent to me ..."
4. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland by James Roderick O'Flanagan (1870)
"He was then fearfully tortured, his execution ordered, tortured and, lest there
should be public excitement, he was led forth in the early dawn to die. ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"The unhappy youth, who might have excited .he compassion of the most savage enemy,
was scourged, tortured, and publicly executed by the inhuman Romans. ..."
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