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What is the adjective for torturing?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb torture which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

torturous
  1. Of or pertaining to torture.
  2. Painful, excruciating, torturing.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. excruciating, agonising, agonizing, harrowing, tormenting, racking, torturing, wrenching, raging, anguishing, distressing, harrying, punishing, tormentous, vexing, unbearable, severe, searing, insufferable, acute, sharp, intense, piercing, unendurable, extreme, dreadful, grievous, terrible, shooting, stabbing, painful, exquisite, violent, fierce, burning, penetrating, harsh, frightful, intolerable, awful, more than one can bear, fearsome, vicious, blistering, consuming, hellish, stinging, profound, overwhelming, deep … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The torturous cries of the wounded soldiers echoed through the battlefield, illustrating the unbearable pain they were enduring.”
      “The torturous torture inflicted upon the prisoners left them scarred both physically and emotionally.”
      “This proved to be a torturous task as many drafts, revisions and rewrites poured out of my head into my PC for weeks on end.”
torturesome
  1. Characterised or marked by torture; torturous
  2. Synonyms:
      3. excruciating, hard, harsh, severe, tough, grim, trying, rough, onerous, grievous, oppressive, brutal, heavy, cruel, burdensome, rugged, bitter, stiff, murderous, inhuman, searing, hardhanded, punishing, tedious, challenging, demanding, arduous, testing, rigorous, grueling, strenuous, difficult, gruelling, backbreaking, fatiguing, laborious, exacting, exhausting, tortuous, taxing, daunting, draining, insufferable, bruising, ponderous, wearying, unforgiving, torturous, debilitating, painstaking … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Instead of being a palate-tingling delight, these complex-carbohydrate foods in their natural state are a torturesome affair.”
torturable
  1. Capable of, or suitable for, being tortured.
tortured
  1. simple past tense and past participle of torture
  2. Synonyms:
      3. mistreated, injured, maltreated, abused, persecuted, brutalised, brutalized, beat, beaten, crucified, molested, tormented, scourged, afflicted, martyred, punished, wounded, wound, lacerated, maimed, mangled, martyrized, smote, smit, smitten, smited, whipped, ill-treated, inflicted pain on, inflicted suffering on, worked over, gave someone the works, given someone the works, put on the rack, put to death, excruciated, hanged, nailed to a cross, hung, burned at the stake, burnt at the stake, troubled, plagued, distressed, bothered, worried, harrowed … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “He was a tortured soul caught between two cultures.”
      “Despite the tortured path to success, it is clear that technology plays a key role in economic progress.”
      “He froze in place with a tortured smile as sweat ran down his broad forehead.”
torturing
  1. present participle of torture
  2. Synonyms:
      3. mistreating, injuring, maltreating, abusing, persecuting, brutalising, brutalizing, beating, crucifying, molesting, tormenting, scourging, afflicting, martyring, punishing, wounding, lacerating, maiming, mangling, martyrizing, smiting, whipping, ill-treating, inflicting pain on, inflicting suffering on, working over, giving someone the works, putting on the rack, excruciating, nailing to a cross, hanging, putting to death, burning at the stake, nailing to cross, killing, executing, racking, hanging on a cross, troubling, plaguing, distressing, bothering, worrying, harrowing, bedeviling, bedevilling … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The marathon runner's torturing blisters made it agonizingly difficult for them to reach the finish line.”
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