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tortured

adjective as in gnarled

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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.

From BBC

He fled the country to Germany after spending a month in jail, where he said he had been tortured.

From BBC

Russian forces are also accused of running a network of torture chambers across occupied Ukraine, where civilians and prisoners of war are tortured and in some cases killed.

From BBC

Israeli security forces have deliberately killed, wounded, arrested, detained, mistreated and tortured medical personnel and targeted medical vehicles, constituting the war crimes of wilful killing and mistreatment and the crime against humanity of extermination.

From Salon

Amnesty International has claimed Sharmahd was forced to confess and that he had told his family he had been tortured in detention.

From BBC

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

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