atormentado

adj.

tormented, troubled, grieved, under the harrow.

past part.

past participle of spanish verb: atormentar.

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ADJ (=afligido) tormented

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= conscience-stricken, tortured, at bay, conscience-smitten.

Ex. Preventive medicine in the community, for example, is obviously vital, but this is no reason for hospital doctors and nurses to feel conscience-stricken because they wait for patients to come to them.

Ex. The book follows Philip's development from a bashful teenager to a more self-assured, but tortured, adult, and finally to a pathetic old man, who often suffered from long bouts of debilitating depression.

Ex. In this new book, he is still at bay, pursued by the hounds of desire and anxiety in a literary world ever more crass.

Ex. The grave digger became so conscience-smitten for not filling his agreement that he buried the money he had received for the work.

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= conscience-stricken, tortured, at bay, conscience-smitten.

Ex: Preventive medicine in the community, for example, is obviously vital, but this is no reason for hospital doctors and nurses to feel conscience-stricken because they wait for patients to come to them.

Ex: The book follows Philip's development from a bashful teenager to a more self-assured, but tortured, adult, and finally to a pathetic old man, who often suffered from long bouts of debilitating depression.

Ex: In this new book, he is still at bay, pursued by the hounds of desire and anxiety in a literary world ever more crass.

Ex: The grave digger became so conscience-smitten for not filling his agreement that he buried the money he had received for the work.

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atormentado, -a adj

tormented