TORMENT

Definition:

1. [noun] unbearable physical pain
   Synonyms: torture
   
   
2. [noun] extreme mental distress
   Synonyms: anguish, torture
   
   
3. [noun] intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"
   Synonyms: agony, torture
   
   
4. [noun] a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors"
   Synonyms: harassment
   
   
5. [noun] a severe affliction
   Synonyms: curse
   
   
6. [noun] the act of harassing someone
   Synonyms: badgering, worrying, bedevilment
   
   
7. [verb] torment emotionally or mentally
   Synonyms: torture, excruciate, rack
   
   
8. [verb] treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
   Synonyms: rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate
   
   
9. [verb] subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
   Synonyms: torture, excruciate
   
   

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Related Words:

• madden
• hamstring
• tease, badger, pester, bug, beleaguer
• persecute, oppress
• rack
• martyr, martyrize, martyrise

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