| 单词 | torturous |
| 释义 | torturous —torturously, adv. /tawr"cheuhr euhs/, adj. pertaining to, involving, or causing torture or suffering. [1490-1500; < AF; OF tortureus. See TORTURE, -OUS] Usage. TORTUROUS refers specifically to what involves or causes pain or suffering: prisoners working in the torturous heat; torturous memories of past injustice. Some speakers and writers use TORTUROUS for TORTUOUS, especially in the senses "twisting, winding" and "convoluted": a torturous road; torturous descriptions. Others, however, keep the two adjectives (and their corresponding adverbs) separate in all senses: a tortuous (twisting) road; tortuous (convoluted) descriptions; torturous (painful) treatments. |
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