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Adjective: tormented 'tor`men-tid- Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain
"a small tormented schoolboy" - anguished, tortured - Tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears
"tormented...by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth" - hag-ridden, hagridden Verb: torment tor'ment- Torment emotionally or mentally
- torture, excruciate, rack - Treat cruelly
"The children tormented the stuttering teacher" - rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate - Subject to torture
"The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible" - torture, excruciate
See also: sorrowful, tormenter, troubled Type of: anguish, beset, chevvy [non-standard], chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, hurt, injure, molest, pain, plague, provoke, wound Encyclopedia: Torment Tormented |