1. Extreme distress of body or mind
   "The news of her son's accident filled her with torment";
   - anguish, torture
    
2. Unbearable physical pain
   "The chronic back pain was torment for the patient";
   - torture
    
3. Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
   "the torments of the damned";
   - agony, torture
    
4. A feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
   "so great was his torment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors";
   - harassment
    
5. A severe affliction
   "His chronic pain was a constant torment";
   - curse
    
6. The act of harassing someone
   "The bully's constant torment made school unbearable";
   - badgering, worrying, bedevilment

1. Torment emotionally or mentally
   "The constant criticism tormented her";
   - torture, excruciate [archaic], rack, wrack
    
2. Harass persistently in cruel or annoying way
   "The children tormented the stuttering teacher";
   - rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate
    
3. Subject to torture
   "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible";
   - torture, excruciate [archaic]

Derived forms: tormenting, torments, tormented

Type of: affliction, anguish, annoyance, beset, chafe [archaic], chevvy [non-standard], chevy [Brit, archaic], chivvy [Brit], chivy [Brit], distress, harass, harassment, harry, hassle [informal], hurt, hurting, injure, molest, molestation, pain, plague, provoke, suffering, vexation, wound

Encyclopedia: Torment