"torturously" meaning in English

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          "text": "Yet this sign of growth and hope is framed by a triangle of spindly wood that subtly evokes torturously stretched arms, as on the Cross.",
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        "In a torturous fashion, or as if in torture"
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  "word": "torturously"
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