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Dictionary Definition

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

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Verb

tormented
  1. past of torment

Extensive Definition

Tormented can refer to
tormented in Dutch: Tormented

Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words

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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