Tortured (Adjective)
Meaning
Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The journalist became a tortured witness to the refugee crisis in the war-torn country.
- His facial expression was twisted in a tortured grimace as he tried to recall the traumatic event.
- After losing her only child, she was a tortured soul who struggled to find solace.
- The small, injured bird looked like a tortured creature as it lay helpless on the ground.
- The artist's turbulent life and anguished personality were reflected in his deeply tortured paintings.