torment
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(verb) torment emotionally or mentally |
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Synonyms: excruciate, rack, torture |
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Related Words: anguish, hurt, pain |
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| 2. |
(verb) annoy constantly |
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Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, tantalize |
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Related Words: annoy, badger, beleaguer, bother, bug, devil, get at, get to, gravel, hamstring, harass, irritate, madden, nark, nettle, oppress, persecute, pester, rag, rile, tease, vex |
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(noun) a severe affliction |
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Synonyms: curse |
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Related Words: affliction |
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(noun) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" |
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Synonyms: agony, torture |
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Related Words: hurt, suffering |
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(noun) extreme mental distress |
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Synonyms: anguish, torture |
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Related Words: distress, hurt, suffering |
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(noun) a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors" |
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Synonyms: harassment |
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Related Words: annoyance, chafe, vexation |
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(noun) unbearable physical pain |
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Synonyms: torture |
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Related Words: hurting, pain |
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| 8. |
(verb) subject to torture |
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Synonyms: excruciate, torture |
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Related Words: injure, martyr, martyrize, rack, wound |
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(noun) the act of harassing someone |
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Synonyms: badgering, bedevilment, worrying |
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Related Words: harassment, molestation |
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