tormented

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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}, {tormented}, {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},
       {tormented}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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   2. To pain; to distress; to afflict.
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            Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy,
            grievously tormented.                 --Matt. viii.
                                                  6.
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   3. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with
      importunities, or with petty annoyances. [Colloq.]
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   4. To put into great agitation. [R.] "[They], soaring on main
      wing, tormented all the air." --Milton.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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