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Definition of torturous in English: torturousadjective ˈtɔːtʃ(ə)rəsˈtɔrtʃ(ə)rəs Characterized by, involving, or causing pain or suffering. a torturous five days of fitness training Example sentencesExamples - Before that, is a torturous trek down the three-kilometre stretch before you reach the saner parts of Bangalore.
- We must all act now, before it is too late to stop our horses and ponies suffering long, torturous journeys to their deaths in foreign abattoirs.
- The last quarter of an hour of the game was torturous.
- Agonizing, torturous hours were lost as he waited outside of Laura's chambers.
- Seeing Adam is only slightly less torturous than getting my teeth cleaned.
- Anyway, we drew a little face on the asthma puffer mask and turned the whole torturous experience into a counting game.
- Endure that torturous progression fifty times, and you've made it one year.
- My understanding of Roman history is that they were incredibly gory and torturous in their punishment.
- These torturous cruelties happen every day and night, also just like I said.
- He is a farmer who marries a rich woman from the city and finds life in Athens with her and his delinquent son torturous.
- Yes, the wait was more torturous than a negative outcome, so I believe.
- Another incredibly busy day at work made torturous by the fact that my Launchcast just stopped working.
- After a period of intense interrogation under torturous conditions, he is sent to a POW camp.
- Neither sounded very pleasant, for he knew both would be excruciatingly long and torturous.
- Trying to write articles is a torturous process for me.
- On the other hand, however, he wouldn't have to continue with that torturous pain anymore.
- It was a bid to create a fuzzy feeling about the pairing, attempting to make it look like theirs hasn't just been a torturous marriage of convenience.
- I was convinced that I had participated in his torturous murder but continued to pull harder as ordered.
- College life is supposedly the best period in one's life, but ragging can make it the most torturous phase one would go through.
- First, the process of creating fur is an ugly, brutal and arguably torturous business.
Synonyms stabbing, shooting, penetrating, piercing, sharp, keen, racking, searing, burning, consuming
Usage On the difference between torturous and tortuous, see tortuous Derivatives adverb Example sentencesExamples - The charitable institution for poor or orphaned girls of clergyman, run by Mr. Brocklehurst, almost starved it occupants, and was torturously strick.
- As I'm towed - we're hoping the boat's movement will attract a nearby pod of whales for me to see - the ice-chilled waters of Hudson Bay torturously infiltrate my wetsuit.
- Sadly, I have found not a single short-cut method for this torturously slow process.
- Every weekend millions of us are forced to either go home early or face the prospect of a torturously slow journey on a night bus full of barking loons.
- The Ibrox manager has lamented a lack of finesse in a squad that is slowly, torturously, playing him out of a job.
- His music is played on torturously high rotation on commercial radio, and enough is enough already.
- It must have been a torturously laborious undertaking.
- Only educated, English-speaking, urban Ghanaians have Internet access, and most of them use torturously slow modem connections.
- Rose, a young woman abducted and torturously stashed in earthquake ruins last June, was forced to flee to the countryside after her kidnappers made a second attempt.
- We endured frequent and torturously dull mother-daughter chitchats.
Origin Late 15th century: from Anglo-Norman French, from torture 'torture'. Definition of torturous in US English: torturousadjectiveˈtɔrtʃ(ə)rəsˈtôrCH(ə)rəs Characterized by, involving, or causing excruciating pain or suffering. a torturous eight weeks in their prison camp Example sentencesExamples - Endure that torturous progression fifty times, and you've made it one year.
- The last quarter of an hour of the game was torturous.
- First, the process of creating fur is an ugly, brutal and arguably torturous business.
- After a period of intense interrogation under torturous conditions, he is sent to a POW camp.
- I was convinced that I had participated in his torturous murder but continued to pull harder as ordered.
- Anyway, we drew a little face on the asthma puffer mask and turned the whole torturous experience into a counting game.
- Another incredibly busy day at work made torturous by the fact that my Launchcast just stopped working.
- Seeing Adam is only slightly less torturous than getting my teeth cleaned.
- Neither sounded very pleasant, for he knew both would be excruciatingly long and torturous.
- He is a farmer who marries a rich woman from the city and finds life in Athens with her and his delinquent son torturous.
- My understanding of Roman history is that they were incredibly gory and torturous in their punishment.
- We must all act now, before it is too late to stop our horses and ponies suffering long, torturous journeys to their deaths in foreign abattoirs.
- On the other hand, however, he wouldn't have to continue with that torturous pain anymore.
- Agonizing, torturous hours were lost as he waited outside of Laura's chambers.
- It was a bid to create a fuzzy feeling about the pairing, attempting to make it look like theirs hasn't just been a torturous marriage of convenience.
- Yes, the wait was more torturous than a negative outcome, so I believe.
- Before that, is a torturous trek down the three-kilometre stretch before you reach the saner parts of Bangalore.
- Trying to write articles is a torturous process for me.
- These torturous cruelties happen every day and night, also just like I said.
- College life is supposedly the best period in one's life, but ragging can make it the most torturous phase one would go through.
Synonyms stabbing, shooting, penetrating, piercing, sharp, keen, racking, searing, burning, consuming
Usage Tortuous and torturous have different core meanings. Tortuous means ‘full of twists and turns’ or ‘devious, circuitous’: both paths were tortuous and strewn with boulders. Torturous is derived from torture and means ‘involving torture or excruciating pain’. Torturous should be reserved for agonized suffering; it is not a fancy word for ‘painful’ or ‘discomforting,’ as in I found the concert torturous because of the music's volume Origin Late 15th century: from Anglo-Norman French, from torture ‘torture’. |