'tormented' definitions:

Definition of 'tormented'

From: WordNet
adjective
Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation" [syn: anguished, tormented, tortured]
adjective
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]

Definition of 'tormented'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. [1913 Webster]
  • Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. --Matt. viii. 6. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To put into great agitation. [R.] "[They], soaring on main wing, tormented all the air." --Milton. [1913 Webster]