tormented : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tormented	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for tormented
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tormented adj experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation" Synonym(s): anguished, tormented, tortured tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears; "hagridden...by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth"- C.S.Lewis Synonym(s): hag-ridden, hagridden, tormented
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Torment \Torment"\, 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. [bd] Art thou come hither to torment us before our time? [b8] --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.] [bd][They], soaring on main wing, tormented all the air.[b8] --Milton.