1. Unbearable physical pain
   - torture 
2. Extreme mental distress
   - anguish, torture 
3. Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
   "the torments of the damned"
   - agony, torture 
4. A feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
   - harassment 
5. A severe affliction
   - curse 
6. The act of harassing someone
   - badgering, worrying, bedevilment

1. Torment emotionally or mentally
   - torture, excruciate, rack 
2. Treat cruelly
   "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
   - rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate 
3. Subject to torture
   "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
   - torture, excruciate

Derived forms: tormented, tormenting, torments

See also: tormenter

Type of: affliction, anguish, annoyance, beset, chafe, chevvy [non-standard], chevy, chivvy, chivy, distress, harass, harassment, harry, hassle, hurt, hurting, injure, molest, molestation, pain, plague, provoke, suffering, vexation, wound

Encyclopedia: Torment

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