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tortured

adjective as in gnarled

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“While the spectacle of public torture in Aceh is horrific, authorities across the country continue to lead or participate in arbitrary raids and arrests in private spaces,” wrote Knight.

Karataş was working as a reporter for the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya News Agency, covering a range of sensitive topics such as allegations of torture by state officials, prisoners’ rights and the Kurdish issue.

From Fortune

Many asylum-seekers were victims of torture in their home countries, Gonzalez said.

Tortured by his inward agitation, he rose and began to pace the room.

Tortured by a multitude of alarming possibilities, Sun Bird again sent an anxious inquiry into the black depths of the cavern.

Tortured by the insight that both enables and compels me to see through the sham and pretense.

Tortured in the human alembic, she was at length resolved, seeing with a vision that pierced all her horizons.

Tortured, those survivors inside were, constantly struggling for life, with vitality ever sinking lower.

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On this page you'll find 279 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tortured, such as: contorted, crooked, deformed, gnarly, twisted, and wrinkled.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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