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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TORMENT'ED, pp. Painted to extremity; teased; harassed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation" [syn: anguished, tormented, tortured]
2: 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]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. --Matt. viii. 6. 3. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances. [Colloq.] 4. To put into great agitation. [R.] ``[They], soaring on main wing, tormented all the air.'' --Milton.

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