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torturingly

torturingly adverb: so as to torture.

Adverb

torturingly (comparative more torturingly, superlative most torturingly)

  1. So as to torture.
    • The ground soon becomes torturingly hard, and she is bitten all over by insects. The worst thing is the cold. It creeps in upon her, and she cringes into a ball to escape from it.2015, Michael Frayn, A Very Private Life
    • An host of furies Could not have baited me more torturingly , More rudely , or more most unnaturally!c. 1619–1623, John Ford, “The Lawes of Candy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii
  2. Extremely; painfully

Forms of torturingly

comparativemore torturingly
superlativemost torturingly

Origin of torturingly

From torturing + -ly.

Questions about torturingly

What does torturingly mean?
Torturingly means so as to torture.
What part of speech is torturingly?
Torturingly is an adverb.

Words near torturingly in the dictionary

  1. torturess
  2. torturesses
  3. torturest
  4. tortureth
  5. torturing
  6. torturingly
  7. torturings
  8. torturous
  9. torturously
  10. tortury
  11. torty

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