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tortured

adjective as in gnarled

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Mr Salehi was briefly released on bail before being rearrested days later for sharing "false claims without evidence" - seemingly a reference to a video he posted claiming to have been "tortured" by intelligence ministry agents.

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On Tuesday, the trial heard Ms Dawes had left a note in which she said she "was murdered", adding she had been "tortured... until there was nothing left".

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The show reveals that Agatha’s nihilistic malevolence stems from her tortured relationship with her mother, who told her she was inherently and irredeemably evil and tried to kill her with her own coven.

"I’m hoping he’ll be used as a bargaining chip, but my son told me they torture their prisoners and I’m so frightened he’ll be tortured."

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The online group paid for baby long-tailed macaque monkeys to be taken from their mothers and then tortured and killed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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