tortured
/ˈtɔɹt͡ʃɚd/ adjective B2- Having been subjected to torture, mental or physical.
- Involving suffering and difficulty. · a tortured history
- Of literature, burdened by unnecessary complexity, obfuscation, abstruseness, etc. · tortured prose
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It is my mind and soul that he has tortured and defiled.
You know not, you can scarcely conceive, how they have tortured me; though it was some time, I confess, before I was reasonable enough to allow their justice.”
Yes, I did wait—yes, I did hope, count, and during this quarter of an hour we have been talking together, you have unconsciously wounded, tortured my heart, for every word you have uttered proved that there was no hope for me.
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