1. Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain
   "a small tormented schoolboy"
   - anguished, tortured 
2. Tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears
   - hag-ridden, hagridden

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

See also: sorrowful, tormenter, troubled

Type of: anguish, beset, chevvy [non-standard], chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, hurt, injure, molest, pain, plague, provoke, wound

Encyclopedia: Torment

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