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
Could one forget the tortured but noble soul of this oak?
I have tortured her to keep my vow, and still I want her....
The work of a suffering and tortured God, did the world then seem to me.
In 1620 had to intervene to protect his mother from being tortured for witchcraft.
The officer, pale, but firm, folded his arms and stared defiantly at the man who tortured him.
Edgar Caswall again tortured his brain to find any antidote or palliative of this greater evil than before.
With them he could, for the only time in his life, forget the lost hand that every day tortured him with a new pang.
"Spit on the aristocrat!" And the child tortured its own small, parched mouth so that, in obedience to its mother, it might defile and bespatter a beautiful, innocent girl.
The broncho's head straightened out before him with amazing quickness. He was beginning to fear as well as hate the human being who so persistently sat his back and tortured him.
Edgar Caswall tortured his brain for a long time unavailingly, to think of some means of getting rid of what he, as well as his neighbours, had come to regard as a plague of birds.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hamlet, License CC BY-SA 4.0