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.
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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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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},
             {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}]

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