tortured
受刑,受刑的,受尽折磨的,受折磨的
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- : the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
- : a method of inflicting such pain.
- : Often tortures. the pain or suffering caused or undergone.
- : extreme anguish of body or mind; agony.
- : a cause of severe pain or anguish.
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tor·tured, tor·tur·ing.
- : to subject to torture.
- : to afflict with severe pain of body or mind: My back is torturing me.
- : to force or extort by torture: We'll torture the truth from his lips!
- : to twist, force, or bring into some unnatural position or form: trees tortured by storms.
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“While the spectacle of public torture in Aceh is horrific, authorities across the country continue to lead or participate in arbitrary raids and arrests in private spaces,” wrote Knight.
Karataş was working as a reporter for the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya News Agency, covering a range of sensitive topics such as allegations of torture by state officials, prisoners’ rights and the Kurdish issue.
Many asylum-seekers were victims of torture in their home countries, Gonzalez said.
Tortured by his inward agitation, he rose and began to pace the room.
Tortured by a multitude of alarming possibilities, Sun Bird again sent an anxious inquiry into the black depths of the cavern.
Tortured by the insight that both enables and compels me to see through the sham and pretense.
Tortured in the human alembic, she was at length resolved, seeing with a vision that pierced all her horizons.
Tortured, those survivors inside were, constantly struggling for life, with vitality ever sinking lower.