verb
- Torment emotionally or mentally.
- synonyms: torment, torture, excruciate, rack
- Treat cruelly.
- usage: "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
- 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"
- 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
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