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Princeton's WordNet

  1. anguished, tormented, torturedadjective

    experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

    "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation"

  2. hag-ridden, hagridden, tormentedadjective

    tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears

    "hagridden...by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth"- C.S.Lewis

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  1. tormented

    Tormented refers to the state or condition of experiencing severe physical or mental suffering or anguish, often persistently or continually. It can also describe the act of causing such suffering.

Webster Dictionary

  1. tormented

    of Torment

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  1. Tormented

    Tormented is an album by Abscess released in 2000.

Editors Contribution

  1. tormented

    To be kept in confinement, or a prison like state.

    As in ancient biblical times.. people were handed over to the tormentors to be thrown into captivity, confinement or prison


    Submitted by anonymous on October 23, 2019  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Tormented in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Tormented in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Tormented in a Sentence

  1. Joseph Addison:

    To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

  2. Pope Francis:

    Without doubt, even moments of great difficulty, of tormented decisions of Christian and human prudence, that to some could have seemed like reticence, were instead attempts, humanly very difficult, to keep the light of humanitarian initiatives, of hidden but active diplomacy lit, in periods of greatest darkness and cruelty, in the hope of a possible opening of hearts.

  3. Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov":

    Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

  4. James Baldwin:

    You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.

  5. James A Michener, Iberia:

    Yo soy un anima infeliz,Perdida en este mundo atormendo. I am a miserable spirit lost in this tormented world.

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