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How to pronounce “tortured”

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Pronunciation guide for tortured

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of tortured with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: How to Design a Creative Life (w/ Debbie Millman)you have to be a tortured artist. That
Definition summary: simple past and past participle of torture

Example 1 of 8

How to Design a Creative Life (w/ Debbie Millman)

you have to be a tortured artist. That

[Verb]
simple past and past participle of torture
[Adjective]
Having been subjected to torture, mental or physical.
Involving suffering and difficulty.
Of literature, burdened by unnecessary complexity, obfuscation, abstruseness, etc.

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