Of or pertaining to torture. / Painful, excruciating, torturing.

In a torturous fashion, or as if in torture

Someone who tortures.

The intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony. / (chiefly literary) The "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships.

(transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).

An act of torture

present participle of torture

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

simple past tense and past participle of torture

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of torture