noun. Great physical pain or mental anguish.

noun. A source of harassment, annoyance, or pain.

noun. The torture inflicted on prisoners under interrogation.

transitive verb. To cause to undergo great physical pain or mental anguish. synonym: afflict.

transitive verb. To annoy, pester, or harass.

noun. An engine of war for casting stones, darts, or other missiles; a tormentum.

noun. An instrument of torture, as the rack, the thumbscrew, or the wheel; also, the application of such an instrument, or the torture caused by it.

noun. Hence, anything which causes great pain or suffering; a source of trouble, sorrow, or anguish.

noun. A state of suffering, bodily or mental; misery; agony.

noun. An object of torture; a victim.

noun. A tempest; a tornado.

noun. Synonyms Anguish, Torture, etc. See agony.

To put to torment, as with the rack or the wheel; torture.

To bring suffering or misery upon; pain; plague; distress; afflict.

To twist; distort.

To throw into agitation; disturb greatly.

Synonyms To agonize, rack, excruciate.

Plague, Worry, etc. (See tease.) Trouble, Distress, etc. See afflict.

noun. An engine for casting stones.

noun. Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.

noun. That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.

transitive verb. To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture.

transitive verb. To pain; to distress; to afflict.

transitive verb. To tease; to vex; to harass.

transitive verb. To put into great agitation.

noun. A catapult or other kind of war-engine.

noun. Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.

noun. Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.

verb. To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)

noun. extreme mental distress

noun. a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented

noun. intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

verb. treat cruelly

verb. subject to torture

noun. a severe affliction

verb. torment emotionally or mentally

noun. the act of harassing someone

noun. unbearable physical pain

"Throughout, [Hans-Christian] Schmid remains agnostic, suggesting that Michaela's problems, whatever their origin, prove only that a mind in torment is a terrible thing."