Dictionary of English - tortuous or torturous

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If something is tortuous it is full of twists and turns or long and complicated: We climbed the tortuous path up the hill; The negotiations for the release of the hostages were protracted and tortuous. If a thing is torturous it relates to torture: Families of the trapped men waited in torturous silence for news.

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