Destructive
Destructive adjective - Causing or tending to cause destruction.
Tortured and destructive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tortured" instead an adjective "Destructive".
Tortured
Tortured adjective - Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain.
Destructive and tortured are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Destructive" instead an adjective "Tortured".
Both words in one sentence
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Norma Cenva is tortured by the cymeks until she releases a destructive psychic wave of her latent powers.
Source: Literature / Dune - A man of great skill and pride, his ego is destroyed when he lost just one fight to Guts, and he went and did some self-destructive behavior like sleeping with the princess which got him landed in prison, getting horrifically tortured for a year.
Source: Break the Haughty
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