torment

Meanings

• unbearable physical pain
• extreme mental distress
• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
  • "the torments of the damned"
• a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
  • "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors"
• a severe affliction
• the act of harassing someone
• torment emotionally or mentally
• treat cruelly
  • "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
• subject to torture
  • "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"

Synonyms

agony, anguish, badgering, bedevil, bedevilment, crucify, curse, dun, excruciate, frustrate, harassment, rack, rag, torture, worrying