TORTURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tortured mean? 

• TORTURED (adjective)
  The adjective TORTURED has 1 sense:

1. experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

  Familiarity information: TORTURED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TORTURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

Synonyms:

anguished; tormented; tortured

Context example:

a tortured witness to another's humiliation

Similar:

sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)

 Context examples 

Years will pass, and you will have visitings of despair and yet be tortured by hope.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

How God must have hated them that they should be tortured so!

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Neptune's satellite system has a violent and tortured history.

(Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger Moon, NASA)

He was tortured by the exquisite beauty of the world, and wished that Ruth were there to share it with him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Unlike the tortured, geologically fresh landscape of the south, Enceladus' northern extremes are heavily cratered and ancient.

(Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon, NASA)

It was high time, for I now began to be tortured with thirst.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I was tortured and tried to get away, and was captured and tortured again.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He wiped his forehead, which had broken out in profuse perspiration at the thought of the pain which he might have to inflict upon the poor soul already so tortured.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I thought of the despairing yell of the tortured iguanodon—that dreadful cry which had echoed through the woods.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)