tortured

Meanings

Verb

• torment emotionally or mentally
• subject to torture
• simple past and past participle of torture

Adjective Satellite

• experiencing intense pain especially mental pain
  • "a tortured witness to another's humiliation"

Adj

• Having been subjected to torture, mental or physical.
• Involving suffering and difficulty.
• Of literature, burdened by unnecessary complexity, obfuscation, abstruseness, etc.

Synonyms

anguished, excruciate, rack, torment, tormented, torture