Overview of verb torment

The verb torment has 3 senses

• torment, torture, excruciate, rack -- (torment emotionally or mentally)


• torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate -- (treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher")


• torture, excruciate, torment -- (subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible")

Overview of adj tormented

The adj tormented has 2 senses

• anguished, tormented, tortured -- (experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation")


• hag-ridden, hagridden, tormented -- (tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears; "hagridden...by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth"- C.S.Lewis)