tormented
- adjective
- /tɔrˈmɛntɪd/
- NSFW
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atormentado
- Emerson said when a man is pushed, tormented and defeated, he is ready to learn something.
Why am I tormented and haunted yet again?
- Why am I tormented and haunted yet again?
- We can hear the screaming tormented souls, obviously spoiler alerts.
- I enjoy the work and I never identified as a tormented artist.
- And Dostoevsky describe how tormented he was when he wanted to describe a Christ like the mishkin in The Possessed.
- Brilliant man, somewhat tormented, but in his own words he even said I shoot myself in the foot so often I should invest in Kavalar boots.
- like I did the college one, you'll be better and you'll you'll be happier. And if you live the life tormented about, what are my prospects for the next one?
Examples
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She felt tormented by thoughts of her mistakes from the past.
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The child was tormented by nightmares every night.
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And people are still being tormented now.
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Why am I tormented and haunted yet again?
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Meanwhile, Priam, the Trojan king, was also tormented by grief.
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After the accident, he was tormented by severe pain.
Synonyms
443
1.8
Feeling very unhappy or suffering a lot
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8.4
To feel great pain or trouble and be very unhappy
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2.9
Feeling very upset, worried, or hurt
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7.0
Feeling very upset and in deep emotional pain
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5.7
Extremely unhappy and suffering a lot
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7.7
Very upset and shocked after seeing or experiencing something terrible
Feeling deep emotional pain and distress
Feeling very strong pain or deep worry
Feeling pain in the body or mind
Causing very strong physical or mental pain
Troubled by bad dreams and strong, unreasonable fears
Antonyms
How Distressed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tormented comes from an old root torquere, which meant 'to twist', and from tormentum, the source of the word torture. So, to be tormented is to be 'twisted' by strong physical or mental pain or worry.