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semitortured

semitortured adjective: somewhat tortured.

Adjective

semitortured (not comparable)

  1. Somewhat tortured.
    • One of the cleverest--and most instructive for the uninitiated--bits is from a fictitious play called Shut Up and Listen, a play in which nobody talks but the semitortured artist character that Nutter wrote for himself.1988 September 16, Diana Spinrad, “Oh My . . . Nuts! A Musical Tribute to the Late Great Mark Nutter”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016
    • And thus began what is by far the most horrendous chain of events in my young, semitortured life.2010, Megan McCafferty, The Complete Jessica Darling Series, →ISBN

Origin of semitortured

From semi- + tortured.

Questions about semitortured

What does semitortured mean?
Semitortured means somewhat tortured.
What part of speech is semitortured?
Semitortured is an adjective.

Words near semitortured in the dictionary

  1. semitopological
  2. semitoroid
  3. semitoroidal
  4. semitoroids
  5. semitorpid
  6. semitortured
  7. semitorus
  8. semitotalistic
  9. semitough
  10. semitoxic
  11. semitractor

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