What is the meaning of tormented?

verb

• Torment emotionally or mentally.
  • synonyms: torment, torture, excruciate, rack
• Treat cruelly.
  • usage: "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
  • synonyms: torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate
• Subject to torture.
  • usage: "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
  • synonyms: torture, excruciate, torment

adjective

• Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain.
  • usage: "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation"
  • synonyms: anguished, tortured
• Tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears."hagridden... By visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth- C. S. Lewis
  • synonyms: hag-ridden, hagridden