'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]
Synonyms of 'tormented'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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