tormented

(verb) torment emotionally or mentally. Synonyms: torment, torture, excruciate, rack.

(verb) treat cruelly. Synonyms: torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate. Example: "The children tormented the stuttering teacher."

(verb) subject to torture. Synonyms: torture, excruciate, torment. Example: "The sinners will be tormented in hell, according to the bible."

(adj) experiencing intense pain especially mental pain. Synonyms: anguished, tortured. Examples: "An anguished conscience." "A small tormented schoolboy." "A tortured witness to another's humiliation."

(adj) tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears. Synonyms: hag-ridden, hagridden. Example: "Hagridden...by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth"- c.s.lewis."