Vocabulary : Tortuose to Torturous
Tortuose : Wreathed; twisted; winding.Tortuoslty : the quality or state of being tortuous.
Tortuous : Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla. ;; Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful. ;; Injurious: tortious. ;; Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
Torturable : Capable of being tortured.
Torture : Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind. ;; Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel. ;; The act or process of torturing. ;; To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex. ;; To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person. ;; To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. ;; To keep on the stretch, as a bow.
