Synonyms:
anguished, tormented, tortured
Meaning: experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation"
Usage examples
But how she tormented me!
It was through spite I tormented you all.
"You will forgive me for having tormented you?
Her face was the face of one who is tormented.
"Nothing, my lord, except that he is tormented with remorse."
"Nor death hath reached him yet, nor guilt doth bring him," My Master made reply, "to be tormented; But to procure him full experience,
If the heart were always malleable and the feelings could be controlled, who would permit himself to be tormented by any of the reverses which affection meets?
Is there any connection between their orbital distances, or between their orbits and the times of describing them? These things tormented him, and he thought about them day and night.
The volume of smoke that went up must have been visible to other planets--or, tormented with our crawlings and scurryings, the earth complained to Mars; swore a vast black oath at us.
Numberless workmen have been employed, and the superintending artist has improved the labourers, whose unskilfulness tormented him, by obliging them to submit to the discipline of rules.