extreme mental distress

[ Syn: anguish , torment ]

unbearable physical pain

[ Syn: torment ]

intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; an agony of doubt; the torments of the damned

[ Syn: agony , torment ]

the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

[ Syn: distortion , overrefinement , straining , twisting ]

the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession

[ Syn: torturing ]

torment emotionally or mentally

[ Syn: torment , excruciate , rack ]

subject to torture; The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible

[ Syn: excruciate , torment ]