tortured: significado e definições

Infliction of severe physical pain as a means of punishment or coercion.

Excruciating physical or mental pain; agony: the torture suffered by inmates in the camp.

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).

To subject (a person or animal) to torture.

To bring great physical or mental pain upon (another). See Synonyms at afflict.

To overwork, misinterpret, or distort: torture a metaphor throughout an essay; torture a rule to make it fit a case.