See torment in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
A state of physical or mental suffering:
affliction, agony, anguish, distress, hurt, misery, pain, torture, woe, wound, wretchedness. See happyExcruciating punishment:
hell, living hell, persecution, torture. Idiom: tortures of the damned. See rewardSomething that annoys:
aggravation, annoyance, besetment, bother, irritant, irritation, nuisance, peeve, plague, vexation. See feelings, pain
verb
To subject (another) to extreme physical cruelty, as in punishing:
crucify, rack, torture. Idiom: put on the rack (or wheel). See pain, rewardTo bring great harm or suffering to:
afflict, agonize, anguish, curse, excruciate, plague, rack, scourge, smite, strike, torture. See attack, helpTo come to mind continually:
haunt, obsess, trouble, weigh on (or upon). See repetitionTo disturb by repeated attacks:
annoy, bait, bedevil, beleaguer, beset, harass, harry, pester, plague, tease, worry. See feelings, pain
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