Read full poem →Hollow groans,
And cries of tortured ghosts!
But, hark! he strikes the golden lyre;
Dictionary Entry
To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).
In a Sentence
“In the aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things that were right, but, we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values.”
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Common Phrases
. tortured
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Poetry examples for “tortured”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Why he was suffering; a curtain
Fallen over the tortured mind beguiled
His sorrow. Like a little child
Read full poem →Where gothic saints and warriors made a shield
To cover him, and tortured gargoyles spat
One long continuous stream of silver rain
Read full poem →Painful, and yet not painful unto it.
Though tortured in the crucible I lie,
Myself my own experiment, yet still
Read full poem →Sometimes I tremble like a storm-swept flower,
And seek to hide my tortured soul from thee.
Bowing my head in deep humility
Read full poem →We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Read full poem →Tangled in frightful nuptials with a snake;
The tortured knot,
Now, like a kite scant-weighted, flung bewitch'd
Read full poem →Who knows?—filling my life with healing fragrance.
But I tortured it, I poisoned it
I blinded its eyes, and it became hatred—
Read full poem →Is that this Elenor for her mother gift
Is cursed and tortured, sent a wanderer;
And in her death must find much clinging mud
Read full poem →There is the silence of a spiritual crisis,
Through which your soul, exquisitely tortured,
Comes with visions not to be uttered