Torment: alternatives and connections

The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief.

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Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

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The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.

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To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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See Chivy, v. t.

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To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.

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Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.

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To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens o…

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The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety.

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To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.

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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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of Hurt

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To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…

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To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.

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The act of molesting, or the state of being molested; disturbance; annoyance.

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Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation.

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of Wind

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An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place…

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To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.

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A bugbear; anything which terrifies.

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One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.

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To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.

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One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion; as, Stephen was the first Christian martyr.

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To make a martyr of.

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To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.

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To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to…

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To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations.

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Same as Arrack.

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To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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Excruciated; tortured.

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Excruciated; tortured.

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Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.

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Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.

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Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

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Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

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One who tortures; a tormentor.

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One who tortures; a tormentor.

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Violent contest or striving.

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Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

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of Badger

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To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.

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The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble.

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To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

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To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

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A mound or small hill.

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Excruciated; tortured.

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Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.

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The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety.

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Same as Arrack.

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

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of Worry

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