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1
hard to accept or bear especially emotionally
- relatives had to make the torturous decision to disconnect the patient's life-support system
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2
intensely or unbearably painful
- the post-infection treatment for rabies was as notoriously torturous as the disease itself
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The first known use of torturous was in the 15th century
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