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Torturous   Listen
adjective
Torturous  adj.  Involving, or pertaining to, torture. (R.) "The torturous crucifixion."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Torturous" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the wise proceed not to stir up the lees of passion and greed and avarice and ambition. They remain with the world, go with it in its devious ways and through its torturous windings, removing the thorns and briars from before naked feet, shielding the weak, sheltering the naked, encouraging and dispensing light and hope and love. The true and wise who love their fellows avoid strife and carnage, and conflict with the ineluctable, ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... about to scream from the torturous suspense when he at last straightened up and looked around at the white-faced ...
— Astounding Stories, April, 1931 • Various



Words linked to "Torturous" :   painful, excruciating, torture, torturesome, harrowing, torturing, agonizing, agonising



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