1. Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain
   "a small tormented schoolboy";
   - anguished, tortured
    
2. Tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears
   "tormented...by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth";
   - hag-ridden, hagridden

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]

See also: sorrowful, troubled

Type of: anguish, beset, chevvy [non-standard], chevy [Brit, archaic], chivvy [Brit], chivy [Brit], harass, harry, hassle [informal], hurt, injure, molest, pain, plague, provoke, wound

Encyclopedia: Tormented