Journalist wrong about soldiers first being tortured (9)
I believe the answer is:
tormented
'tortured' is the definition.
(I know that tortured can be written as tormented)
'journalist wrong about soldiers first' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'journalist' could be 'ed' (short for editor) and 'ed' is found in the answer.
'soldiers' could be 'men' (men can mean a group of soldiers) and 'men' is found in the answer.
'wrong' could be 'tort' (legal term) and 'tort' is found in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'being' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tormented that I've seen before include "Worried" , "Caused to suffer" , "Made to suffer" , "Suffering severely" , "Distressed" .)