- tortured - subjected to intense pain; "hundreds of tortured prisoners"
Antonym: unpunished (indirect, via punished)
- anguished, tormented, tortured - experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation"
Antonym: joyful (indirect, via sorrowful)
- torment, torture, excruciate, rack - torment emotionally or mentally
--1 is one way to pain, anguish, hurt
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun torture3, noun torture1, noun torturer1
The bad news will torture him
- torture, excruciate, torment - subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
--2 is one way to injure, wound
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun torture5, noun torture2, noun torturer1, noun torturing1
They want to torture the prisoners