3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. [1913 Webster] Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. --Matt. viii. 6. [1913 Webster] 3. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] 4. To put into great agitation. [R.] "[They], soaring on main wing, tormented all the air." --Milton. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: 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}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 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
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