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• v  torment emotionally or mentally
• v  treat cruelly
  The children tormented the stuttering teacher
• v  subject to torture
  The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible
• s  experiencing intense pain especially mental pain
  a small tormented schoolboy
• s  tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears

• A half-century later the film's presentation of union corruption on the New Jersey docks seems a little quaint, but Brando's ferocious and tormented yearning for Eva Marie Saint's .
• Director Martin Scorsese--appalled, yet curiously joyful--has often explored the lives of the criminal class, but this tangle of tormented loyalties brings out the bloody best in .
• That his political and strategic ambitions have created a dividing line in the history of this turbulent and tormented century is undeniable: there is a before and an after.

• torment
• torture
• excruciate
• rack
• rag
• bedevil
• crucify
• dun
• frustrate
• anguished
• tortured
• hag-ridden
• hagridden

News & Articles

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• Among 'Walking Dead' zombies, Andrew Lincoln brings emotional heft
  He plays tormented hero Rick Grimes, with one scene in particular, when Grimes' learns of his wife's death, a standout. As lean, haunted lawman Rick Grimes, the character at the center of the apocalyptic horrors that unspool on AMC's "The Walking Dead," Andrew Lincoln has been tasked with embodying the tormented hero, the wounded husband, the emotionally unavailable father aspiring to do better ...
  June 13, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
• Flooding, threat of tornadoes snarl East Coast commutes
  Devastating winds, hail and rain delayed flights and snarled work commutes along the East Coast on Thursday, caused by a massive storm system that tormented the Midwest a day earlier.Flood warnings were in effect for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, while severe thunderstorm warnings were also issued in the South and Southeast.A tornado threat was also issued, extending all the way from ...
  June 13, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• Flooding, tornado near DC, and threat of more severe weather on East Coast
  A tornado in Maryland as well as lightning, hail and heavy rain delayed flights and snarled work commutes along the East Coast on Thursday, caused by a massive storm system that tormented the Midwest a day earlier.The storm turned deadly in Virginia, where a large, mature tree uprooted by the storm fell on a school-age child, killing him, police said. A man was also injured in the incident that ...
  June 13, 2013 - NBC NEWS

Quotes

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• Corey Feldman in CTV.ca
  Feldman said Haim's death marked the "tragic loss of a wonderful, beautiful, tormented soul, who will always be my brother, family and best friend."
• Paul Shapiro in Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription)
  How can we fail to remember certain African regions, such as Darfur and Somalia, the tormented Middle East, especially the Holy Land, Iraq, Lebanon and finally Tibet, all of which I encourage to seek solutions that will safeguard peace and the... Pope Benedict XVI http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG46bW2RwVceLegHVO52x6Mpv_pVg BBC News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7310255.stm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEJ1Ko07WNaZABpbVn4T727aGc6Hw Mar 23, 2008 100884 133984 tormented You could have cows tormented to stand up momentarily to pass inspection, and then go down," said Paul Shapiro, senior director of the Humane Society's factory farming campaign. "We want that loophole to be closed. Crippled cattle should be...