to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain

to be tormented with violent headaches.

to worry or annoy excessively

to torment one with questions.

to throw into commotion; stir up; disturb.

a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery.

something that causes great bodily or mental pain or suffering.

a source of much trouble, worry, or annoyance.

an instrument of torture, as the rack or the thumbscrew.

the infliction of torture by means of such an instrument or the torture so inflicted.

noun

contentment , glee , happiness , joy

verb

delight , make happy , please

noun

affliction , agony , anguish , annoyance , bane , bother , excruciation , harassment , hell , irritation , misery , nag , nagging , nuisance , pain , pain in the neck * , persecution , pest , plague , provocation , rack , scourge , suffering , torture , trouble , vexation , worrynotes:torment suggests persecution or the repeated inflicting of suffering or annoyance; torture adds the implication of causing unbearable pain or suffering , hurt , woe , wound , wretchedness , living hell , aggravation , besetment , irritant , peeve , calamity , distress , infliction , purgatory , thorn , visitation

verb

abuse , afflict , agonize , annoy , bait , bedevil , bone , bother , break , crucify , devil , distress , drive bananas , drive up the wall , excruciate , give a hard time , harass , harrow , harry , heckle , hound , hurt , irritate , mistreat , molest , nag , pain , persecute , pester , plague , play cat and mouse , provoke , punish , put through wringer , rack , rub salt in wound , smite , tease , torture , trouble , try , vex , worry , wringnotes:torment suggests persecution or the repeated inflicting of suffering or annoyance; torture adds the implication of causing unbearable pain or suffering , anguish , curse , scourge , strike , obsess , weigh on , beleaguer , beset , agitate , agony , badger , browbeat , despair , dragoon , grill , hector , lacerate , misery , rag , rib , strain , suffering , tantalize , tempest , travail