Usually means: Inflicting severe pain or suffering.
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  1. torturous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. torturous: Merriam-Webster
  3. torturous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. torturous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. torturous: Collins English Dictionary
  6. torturous: Vocabulary.com
  7. Torturous, torturous: Wordnik
  8. torturous: Wiktionary
  9. torturous: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. torturous: Dictionary.com
  11. Torturous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. torturous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. torturous: Rhymezone
  14. Torturous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. torturous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. torturous: FreeDictionary.org
  17. torturous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. torturous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. torturous: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. torturous: Encyclopedia

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(Note: See torturously as well.)

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adjective:  Of or pertaining to torture.
adjective:  Painful, excruciating, torturing.

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