'tortured' is a correctly spelled and correctly used word in written English.
You can use it to describe an emotional state, a physical state, or a situation. Example sentence: She felt tortured by the looming deadline.
MDC members have been murdered, tortured and jailed during a long struggle and the prize now seems further away than ever.
One female political activist who fled to the UK after being detained, raped and tortured by police in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, said: "Many are raped by secret police and other security officials.
The Lithuanian prime minister, Algirdas Butkevicius, urged Washington to say whether the country housed one of the bases where the CIA tortured prisoners.
Twenty years ago we were not pursued by mobs, tortured by police, or run out of our homes.
He has told his wife he was tortured during that time.
I was arrested in one of these protests, and many of my mates were tortured and killed.
Sannikov, a 57-year-old former deputy foreign minister, said he was tortured by Belarus's secret police and that its chief personally threatened harsh reprisals against his wife – a journalist – and their four-year-old son.
Former detainees and senior military sources described how detainees were regularly tortured to death, hung on poles over fires, tossed into deep pits or interrogated using electric batons.
Similarly, in February this year, Tony Abbott launched an attack on the reporting of the mistreatment claims by saying, "If a very serious allegation was being made that Australian Navy personnel effectively tortured people, well you'd think any responsible news outlet, let alone the voice of Australia – the ABC – would have sought corroboration before broadcasting them".
Amal Clooney has joined a legal team representing 11 prisoners known as the "hooded men" who allege they were tortured by the British army at the start of the Northern Ireland Troubles.
