transitive. To torment; to kill, destroy.

transferred. figurative. Of passions, grief, etc.: To ‘devour’, torment. Cf. to eat up at phrasal verbs. Obsolete.

transitive. To put to death as a martyr.

figurative. Chiefly of the passions, etc.: To ‘devour’, ‘consume’, torment; cf. eat, v. 10c. Also, to fret oneself. Obsolete except in fret the heart…

figurative. To injure, inflict pain or hurt upon, in a manner comparable to the infliction of a wound; in later use esp. to pain or grieve deeply.

transitive. To gnaw, devour, consume.

figurative. Said esp. of passion, remorse, etc. (cf. fret, v.1 3b). †Also, to carp at.

to torment exceedingly.

To afflict or vex with great suffering or misery, physical or mental; to pain, distress, plague.

transitive. To cause great emotional pain to. Chiefly with heart as object. Cf. heart-rending, adj.

transitive. To afflict with mental pain or suffering; to torment, to trouble, to distress.

figurative. To afflict, to torment; physically and mentally. Also absol. Now only U.S.: to annoy, vex.

To cause anguish or distress to (a person, his heart, etc.); to vex, distress, rack.

transitive. To break down (transl. Latin decerpere).

transitive. To torment.

figurative and hyperbolical. transitive. To rend (the heart, soul, etc.) with painful thoughts or feelings.

transitive. To cause pain or anguish to (a person); to pain, irritate. Also absol.

transitive. figurative. To torment. Obsolete.

figurative. To vex, afflict, torment; to punish, chastise; to administer severe satire or reproof to, ‘lash’, ‘castigate’.

transitive. To afflict with grievous pain or distress; to torture, torment, to excruciate, adj. archaic.

figurative. transitive. Of cold, hunger, disease, etc.: to destroy, damage, or waste; to afflict (a person) with privation or hardship. Also: to…

figurative. To gall severely, in various senses.

transitive. To subject to physical or mental agony, to torture. Also intransitive with object implied.

transitive. To inflict mental pain or torture on (a person); to torment (the mind, soul, etc.). Now usually in passive.

figurative (transitive). To wound deeply the feelings of; to distress greatly. Now chiefly in to cut to the heart. (Cf. to cut up at phrasal verbs; c…

figurative. To torture mentally, inflict extreme mental anguish upon.

figurative.

transitive. To torment, torture.

transitive. To torment or inflict torture upon (a person). Obsolete. rare.

In various figurative uses. Of violent grief or pain.

To inflict severe pain or suffering upon; to torment; to distress or afflict grievously; also, to exercise the mind severely, to puzzle or…

transitive. figurative. To afflict, distress, torment; to harrow.

To lacerate or wound the feelings of; to vex, pain, or distress greatly. (Rarely with up.)

transitive. (a) To place in or as in hell. (b) To make into a hell. (c) To cause (a person, one's mind, etc.) great annoyance or anguish; to give…

Of passions: To ‘consume’, absorb (a person). Of diseases, troubles, etc.: To wear out the life of (a person). Chiefly in passive; const. with…

transitive. To pierce, wound, or kill with an arrow (literal and figurative).

transitive. To inflict pain or suffering upon; to torment; = martyr, v. 2a.

transitive. To inflict intense torment upon; to torture. Cf. cruciate, v. 1, excruciate, v.

To harrow, wound, ‘rend’ (the heart, soul, feelings, etc.). Also with apart, up: to render distraught, upset (a person). In passive with up (dialect…

figurative. To torment, to prove a ‘crux’ to.

figurative and transferred. To inflict acute pain or torture upon.

To affect with severe pain, suffering, or anguish; to distress or pain greatly; to rack.

In hyperbolic use: To come near to killing. To injure seriously; to affect with severe pain or suffering.

To wound deeply the feelings of; to distress greatly. (Usually in passive)