tortured

Having been subjected to torture, mental or physical.

• Those who have escaped the dark and terrible aspects of life will find my brutality, my flash of rage in our final tragedy, easy enough to blame; for they know what is wrong as well as any, but not what is possible to tortured men. But thos

Involving suffering and difficulty.

• a tortured history

Of literature, burdened by unnecessary complexity, obfuscation, abstruseness, etc.

• tortured prose

simple past and past participle of tortureform-ofparticiplepast