torment

Noun

• the act of harassing someone

• a severe affliction

• a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
  • so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors
    

• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
  • an agony of doubt
    
  • the torments of the damned
    

• extreme mental distress

• unbearable physical pain

Verb

• subject to torture
  • The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible
    

• treat cruelly
  • The children tormented the stuttering teacher
    

• torment emotionally or mentally

Related words

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