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tormented
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective tormented has 2 senses
- tormented(s = adj.all) anguished, tortured - experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation"
- tormented(s = adj.all) hag-ridden, hagridden - tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears; "hagridden...by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth"
THESAURUS
tormented
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
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