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tortured

(= anguished, tormented) experiencing intense pain especially mental pain an anguished conscience a small tormented schoolboy a tortured witness to another's humiliation

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Simple sentences

A fart is the tortured scream of a trapped turd.
I tortured the prisoners.
Animals are tortured in slaughterhouses. Most people don't care about it.
Tom won't confess even if he was tortured.
The problem tortured the chief.
The boss tortured the workers with his criticism.
The pain she suffered while being tortured was unimaginable.
He was tortured and murdered.
They tortured Tom.
Tom was tortured.
In civilized Europe, bulls are still tortured and killed for fun.
Tom was tortured and murdered.
Tom was tortured by the police.
You tortured a prisoner.
She tortured a prisoner.
He tortured a prisoner.
They were tortured.
They tortured you.
I was tortured.
We tortured them.
Dan was also tortured.
I was tortured by thirst.

Movie subtitles

Grushenka, you've tortured me - life has become a nightmare.
Her mind is tortured.
Tortured,eyesput out, tongues slit, ears hacked off.
Mothers and wives are tortured for their sons and husbands!
You're doing business with the people. who robbed us, tortured us and left us to starve.
I see you didn't understand my tortured heart.
That cat sounds like it's being tortured.
How does it feel, Bauer, to have planned and killed and tortured for something.
From the beginning. your presence tortured me.
We tortured them!
Have you ever heard, that someone was tortured at our place?
They would be tortured, shot.
They shot him, tortured him.
I've tortured you enough.
You didn't obey His word when you burned our houses, killed our children, raped our women and tortured our leaders!
And so the backwash of a tortured nation had carried still another extra to Hollywood.
Bad enough before he held up the train but after he tortured Mr Baum. I think youre doing the woman an injustice.
So perhaps after all it was an hallucination of your tortured mind that you saw there just as you see it here.
It is, ladies and gentlemen, the confession of a tortured conscience. Listen.
Tortured, eyes put out, tongues slit, ears hacked off.
You made a nervous wreck out of me, you tortured me, you took my pride away, my self-respect and I stood for it, but if you try to tell me that he just came here to bring a handbag, I'll kill you.
You're doing business with the people who robbed us, tortured us and left us to starve.
And if ever a devil tortured a woman, you're my devil and torture me!
I've been tortured enough.
Listen, now that you're married I can't let Robert be tortured like this so I've got to tell you, I changed the name on the bracelet.
Darling, look at that poor, sweet, tortured face.
Tormented her, got her drunk and tortured her!
Secrets I tortured out of him.
I have been caught in this web of flesh, Duke Lambert. caught and tortured.
And now.. Tortured,eyesput out, tongues slit, ears hacked off.
So, it's perhaps the vengeance of all those lost souls who've been tortured, starved and murdered in the castle dungeon.
It's the Ukrainian land that's no longer accepting blood, tears of tortured children, fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers of ours!
What a cossack died tortured and for nothing.
Tonight you'll be tortured with hot iron.
My uncle has just been caught and taken to the fortress to be tortured!
They tortured the old lady until they found the stuff.
They said I tortured an old lady.
I bet he never tortured anybody.

News and current affairs

The Cup's explosions of proud nationalism hide more tortured realities.
In other words, the torturers had been tortured themselves.
This is consistent with a decades-old pattern in Egyptian history, in which the Brothers - and Islamist political forces in general - were outlawed, and their members imprisoned, tortured, and exiled.
In the climate of extreme fear that followed the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration engaged in tortured legal interpretations of international and domestic law that tarnished American democracy and diminished its soft power.
Because of that fear, Americans allow themselves to be spied on indiscriminately by their own government, and permit terrorism suspects to be tortured and locked up indefinitely without trial.
Many Palestinians have been killed under Israeli rule, but their number is not even close to the number of Muslim civilians who are still being tortured, murdered, and maimed by Muslim governments every day.
With President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returning to office in February, Haiti's long cycle of poverty and violence could end, but only if Haiti and the US understand the lessons of Hispaniola's tortured history.
When countries with tortured histories get this modicum of good fortune, the rich and powerful should seize the chance to help them develop.
In the Arab-Israeli conflict's long, tortured history, they have reviled no Israeli prime minister - with the possible exception of Ariel Sharon - more than Netanyahu.
The notion that people have inalienable rights - the right to free speech and association, or the right not to be tortured - simply by virtue of their existence as human beings: that notion is, of course, a fiction.
Furthermore, Obama's Justice Department has invoked Bush's argument that the State Secrets Act bars evidence about torture from being disclosed, which means that anyone who was tortured can never appear in court.
Darfur is a humanitarian catastrophe: more than 200,000 dead, thousands raped and tortured, and 2.6 million people displaced, owing to the Sudanese government's war against its own people.
The Libyan tyrant happily allowed his opponents, or anyone who annoyed him, to be tortured or killed.
Montazeri was placed under house arrest for six years; demonstrations of support for him were suppressed; and many of his disciples and close friends were imprisoned, tortured, killed, or forced to flee the country.
She was then kept in the dungeon by her husband's family and brutally tortured for months, because she refused to work as a prostitute.
Meanwhile, amid plodding deliberations of incremental steps that are clearly inadequate, Syrians are being displaced, wounded, tortured, and killed in droves.
TOKYO - July will mark two milestones in America's sometimes-tortured relations with Asia.
Dissidents in Singapore were often locked up and maltreated, but no one was tortured to death.
Before his exile, Yu had been thrown into a dark room and tortured, because Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010.
More than seven months on from this brutal suppression, political activists continue to be imprisoned and tortured.
Many have been tortured, kept in horrific conditions, and denied medical care.
The challenges facing US President Barack Obama as he tries to win support for risky and expensive policy options from quarrelsome Democrats and obstinate Republicans will create some tortured legislative compromises.
One got a sense of this when China's reputation and the Games' status came under attack during the Tibetan demonstrations and protests against the Olympic torch as it made its tortured progress around the world.
Today, they are bullied, silenced, and tortured in places like Iran, Syria, China, and Myanmar.
In the climate of extreme fear that followed the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration's tortured legal interpretations of international and domestic law tarnished American democracy and diminished its soft power.
Should we tolerate the murder of children and the abduction of boys to be tortured, broken, and sold back to their families, alive or dead?
In 2006, the French Jew Ilan Halimi was kidnapped and brutally tortured in a cellar for three weeks, resulting in his death.
So, even as Turkey tries to deal with the consequences of its history at home, and redefine the army's role in society, it must reset its tortured relationship with Armenia.
There is no crisis in America's churches and synagogues, no Christian and Jewish leaders crying out for justice in the name of Jesus, a tortured political prisoner, or of Yahweh, who demands righteousness.
That July, after an uneasy period of sharing power with Prince Norodom Ranariddh's royalist party, Hun Sen launched a bloody coup in which his opponents were exiled, arrested, tortured, and in some cases summarily executed.

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