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Another word for torment

torment Synonyms

torment

n.

agony, suffering, misery; see pain 1, 2, torture.

torment Synonyms

torment

v.

abuse, mistreat, torture, irritate; see hurt 1.

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Another word for torment

noun

A state of physical or mental suffering:
affliction, agony, anguish, distress, hurt, misery, pain, torture, woe, wound, wretchedness. See happy
Excruciating punishment:
hell, living hell, persecution, torture. Idiom: tortures of the damned. See reward
Something 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, reward
To bring great harm or suffering to:
afflict, agonize, anguish, curse, excruciate, plague, rack, scourge, smite, strike, torture. See attack, help
To come to mind continually:
haunt, obsess, trouble, weigh on (or upon). See repetition
To disturb by repeated attacks:
annoy, bait, bedevil, beleaguer, beset, harass, harry, pester, plague, tease, worry. See feelings, pain

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I must be sure before I strike and not leave the psychic one behind to torment me.
Remained the place of eternal torment for the Gentiles.
Her cheeks were streaked with tears, her green eyes showing her torment and her magic like a halo around her.
The abodes of bliss and the places of torment may be distinguished, or one last dwelling-place may be affirmed for all the dead.
He had found, at last, the woman he wanted, and she soon became so indispensable to him that it was a torment to be without her.

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