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  1. anguished, tormented, torturedadjective

    experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

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

    Synonyms:
    tortured, anguished, hagridden, hag-ridden

    Antonyms:
    untroubled, joyful

  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

    Synonyms:
    hagridden, anguished, hag-ridden, tortured

    Antonyms:
    untroubled, joyful

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  1. List of paraphrases for "tormented":

    plagued, long-suffering, tortured, troubled, haunted, stormy

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#11950troubled
#12916haunted
#15971tortured
#23805stormy
#26420plagued
#40958tormented
#83757anguished

How to use tormented in a sentence?

  1. James A Michener, Iberia:

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

  2. 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.

  3. anon:

    Silence encourages the tormentors not the tormented

  4. Gabriela Tagliavini:

    There was a message in the story and why the rape needed to be there… but maybe the scene could have been left out, as tormented as the male character was.

  5. Ben Carson:

    It's really unfair that people can't get a real hearing, and they get put on a list and nobody can tell them why they're there, and they go through for years and years and they have to be tormented. It just doesn't make any sense.


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