<p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms:</strong></p><ul><li>agonize</li><li>distress</li><li>vex</li><li>hector</li><li>harry</li></ul><p><strong>Antonyms:</strong></p><ul><li><p>please</p></li><li><p>to worry or annoy excessively: to torment one with questions</p></li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms:</strong></p><ul><li><p>fret</p></li><li><p>trouble</p></li><li><p>needle</p></li><li><p>provoke</p></li><li><p>tease</p></li><li><p>pester</p></li><li><p>plague</p></li><li><p>to throw into commotion; stir up; disturb</p></li></ul><hr><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms:</strong></p><ul><li><p>anguish</p></li><li><p>distress</p></li><li><p>torture</p></li><li><p>something that causes great bodily or mental pain or suffering</p></li><li><p>a source of much trouble, worry, or annoyance</p></li><li><p>an instrument of torture, as the rack or the thumbscrew</p></li><li><p>the infliction of torture by means of such an instrument or the torture so inflicted</p></li></ul>