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Tortious
- adjective - of or pertaining to the nature of a tort; "tortious acts"
Tortoise
- noun - usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica
Tortuose
- - Wreathed; twisted; winding.
Tortuous
- adjective - highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
- marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track"
- not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"
Tortured
- verb - experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation"
- subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
- torment emotionally or mentally
Torturer
- noun - someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for punishment or coercion)
Tortures
- noun - extreme mental distress
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"
- subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
- torment emotionally or mentally
- unbearable physical pain
Torulose
- adjective - of a cylindrical or ellipsoid body; swollen and constricted at intervals
Toss Off
- verb - drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"
- write quickly; "She dashed off a note to her husband saying she would not be home for supper"; "He scratched off a thank-you note to the hostess"
- write quickly; "She dashed off a note to her husdband saying she would not be home for supper"