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torturous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective torturous has 1 sense
- torturous(s = adj.all) agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing - extremely painful; Array Derived forms noun torture3, noun torture2
THESAURUS
torturous
acute, afflictive, agonizing, atrocious, biting, consuming, cramping, cruel, desolating, distressing, excruciating, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harrowing, harsh, heartbreaking, heartrending, heartsickening, heartwounding, hurtful, hurting, painful, paroxysmal, piercing, poignant, pungent, racking, rending, severe, sharp, shooting, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, stabbing, stinging, tearing, tormenting, torturing
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