[syn: hag-ridden, hagridden, tormented]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Torment \Tor*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. tormented; p. pr. &
vb. n. tormenting.] [OF. tormenter, F. tourmenter.]
1. To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating
misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. " Art
thou come hither to torment us before our time? " --Matt.
viii. 29.
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2. To pain; to distress; to afflict.
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Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy,
grievously tormented. --Matt. viii.
6.
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3. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with
importunities, or with petty annoyances. [Colloq.]
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4. To put into great agitation. [R.] "[They], soaring on main
wing, tormented all the air." --Milton.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tormented
adj 1: experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an
anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a
tortured witness to another's humiliation" [syn:
anguished, tormented, tortured]
2: tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears;
"hagridden...by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon
earth"- C.S.Lewis [syn: hag-ridden, hagridden,
tormented]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "tormented":
afflicted, agonized, badgered, baited, bedeviled, beset, bugged,
bullyragged, chivied, convulsed, crucified, deviled, distracted,
distrait, distressed, dogged, fretted, harassed, harried, harrowed,
haunted, heckled, hectored, hounded, hurt, hurting, in distress,
in pain, lacerated, martyred, martyrized, needled, nipped at,
on the rack, pained, persecuted, pestered, picked on, plagued,
racked, ragged, suffering, teased, tortured, troubled, twisted,
under the harrow, vexed, worried, worried sick, worried stiff,
wounded, wrung