TORMENTED

anguished, tormented, tortured

(adjective) experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; “an anguished conscience”; “a small tormented schoolboy”; “a tortured witness to another’s humiliation”

hagridden, hag-ridden, tormented

(adjective) tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears; “hagridden...by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth”- C.S.Lewis

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

tormented

simple past tense and past participle of torment

Adjective

tormented (comparative more tormented, superlative most tormented)

Miserable or anguished, especially with anxiety or guilt.

(US, colloquial) Damned; accursed.

Source: Wiktionary


TORMENT

Tor"ment, n. Etym: [OF. torment, F. tourment, fr. L. tormentum an engine for hurling missiles, an instrument of torture, a rack, torture, fr. torquere to turn, to twist, hurl. See Turture.]

1. (Mil. Antiq.)

Definition: An engine for casting stones. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

2. Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind. Chaucer. The more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. Milton.

3. That which gives pain, vexation, or misery. They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments. Matt. iv. 24.

Tor*ment", v. t. [imp. & p. p. tormented; p. pr. & vb. n. tormenting.] Etym: [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.

2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. Matt. viii. 6.

3. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances. [Colloq.]

4. To put into great agitation. [R.] "[They], soaring on main wing, tormented all the air." Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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