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tor·ture

 (tôr′chər)
n.
1. Infliction of severe physical pain as a means of punishment or coercion.
2. Excruciating physical or mental pain; agony: the torture suffered by inmates in the camp.
3. An experience or cause of severe pain or anguish: "Just to watch them handling thick woolen winter coats in that heat was, for me, a torture" (Arthur Miller).
tr.v. tor·tured, tor·tur·ing, tor·tures
1. To subject (a person or animal) to torture.
2. To bring great physical or mental pain upon (another). See Synonyms at afflict.
3. To overwork, misinterpret, or distort: torture a metaphor throughout an essay; torture a rule to make it fit a case.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin tortūra, from Latin tortus, past participle of torquēre, to twist; see terkw- in Indo-European roots.]

tor′tur·er n.
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Adj.1.tortured - experiencing intense pain especially mental paintortured - experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation"
sorrowful - experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13
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What touched me most..." (and here Anna guessed what would touch Dolly most) "he's tortured by two things: that he's ashamed for the children's sake, and that, loving you--yes, yes, loving you beyond everything on earth," she hurriedly interrupted Dolly, who would have answered-- "he has hurt you, pierced you to the heart.
You shall read, in some of the friars' books of mortification, that a man should think with himself, what the pain is, if he have but his finger's end pressed, or tortured, and thereby imagine, what the pains of death are, when the whole body is corrupted, and dissolved; when many times death passeth, with less pain than the torture of a limb; for the most vital parts, are not the quickest of sense.
While Peter lived, the tortured man felt that he was a lion in a cage into which a sparrow had come.
Despite IGP's clear directions, crime suspects are routinely tortured and detained at private places in Lahore.
CHR ruled that the 'Morong 43' were tortured by military officials.
The first, which it described as "one of the most shocking cases," was that of Hassan al-Dika, who is believed to have died in detention after being tortured.
The news pages and TV screens regularly feature accounts of those in custody relating nightmarish run-ins with the law, where police officers have tortured them psychologically or physically.
According to him, these persons had been tortured and forced to acknowledge their involvement in this attack in a way that "did not take into account the real perpetrators who later on committed the Sousse attack." All those accused had been released later on and their files had been classified, he said.
(https://www.ibtimes.com/turpin-family-update-mother-gets-emotional-over-missing-children-she-abused-tortured-2769688) Louise and (https://www.ibtimes.com/turpin-family-update-father-wants-forgiveness-children-he-tortured-abused-2769160) David Turpin, the parents that tortured and abused (https://www.ibtimes.com/turpin-family-update-children-are-improved-after-years-torture-abuse-2770176) 12 of their 13 children for years, have been sentenced to life in prison.
In his message he said 'this day acknowledges and honours the many survivors of torture world-wide, including those who have been tortured for their political or other views, those caught in the fight against terrorism or those who have been tortured simply because of their differences.
Human Rights Watch interviewed 19 former detainees and the family of a 20th detainee who were tortured between 2014 and 2016, as well as Egyptian defense and human rights lawyers.
Thousands were incarcerated, many were tortured in prison, freedom of speech and expression was banned, civil liberties were curtailed and human rights violations took centre-stage including a mass-sterilisation programme.