- anguished, tormented, tortured - experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation"
Antonym: joyful (indirect, via sorrowful)
- hag-ridden, hagridden, tormented - tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears; "hagridden...by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth"- C.S.Lewis
Antonym: untroubled (indirect, via troubled)
- torment, torture, excruciate, rack - torment emotionally or mentally
--1 is one way to pain, anguish, hurt
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun torment3, noun torment2, noun tormenter1, noun tormenter2, noun tormentor1
The bad news will torment him
- torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate - treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
--2 is one way to harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun torment6, noun torment4, noun tormenter1, noun tormentor1
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- torture, excruciate, torment - subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
--3 is one way to injure, wound
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun torment1, noun tormenter1, noun tormenter2
They want to torment the prisoners