Reverse Dictionary: TORMENT

ADJECTIVES
► BALE actively evil, deadly, dire, pernicious, destructive, fatal, cruel, tormenting → a1000 obs.
► BAMFERING tormenting, shrewish → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CRUCIATE tortured, tormented → 1504 obs.
► CRUCIATORY torturing, tormenting → 1660 obs.
► HEART-SCALDED troubled, tormented, afflicted → 1843 Ireland 
► MARTYRED tormented, mutilated → 1580 obs.
► PAINFUL of a person: inflicting pain or punishment; tormenting → c1450
► YETERIE ► YETRIE severe, excessive, tormenting → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)

NOUNS
► BALE physical suffering, torment, pain, woe → c1250 obs.
► BUTCHERY a place of torture or torment  → c1540 obs.
► CHAIN LIGHTNING n. torment or misery, esp. a severe scolding; hell → 1866 US sl.
► CRUCIATION torture, torment → 1496 obs.
► GEHENNA the place of future torment; hell → 1623
► GEHENNE a place of torment; hell → 1481 obs.
► HEART-RENDING terrible distress; mental anguish; torment → 1854
► MARTYRDOM torment, torture; extreme pain or suffering → c1386
► MARTYRE torment, torture; extreme pain or suffering → c1330 obs.
► MARTYRY suffering, torment → 1677 obs.
► MURDER torment, punishment; severe injury or damage → a1000 obs.
► MURDER HOUSE a house of torment → a1000 poetic usage, obs.
► PRICK a thing that causes annoyance, irritation, or torment → c1384 obs.
► TANTALISM punishment or torment like that of Tantalus (mythical king condemned, for revealing the secrets of the gods, to stand in Tartarus up to his chin in water, which constantly receded as he stooped to drink, and with branches of food hanging above him which ever fled his grasp); tantalization → c1614 obs.
► TARVIZZEEN struggling; contending, scolding, tormenting → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► TINTREGH torment, torture → c893 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BADGERER a person who badgers another → L19
► BAITER a tormenter; a tease → 1611
► GAD-FLY one who irritates, torments, or worries another → 1649
► RACKER a tormentor; a ‘murderer’ → 1911 (Bk.)
► TORMENTRESS a female who torments → 1426 

PHRASES
► ON THE GRIDIRON in a state of torment, persecution, or great uneasiness → 1590

VERBS
► AFFLIGE to afflict; to distress with continued physical or mental suffering; to torment, to trouble → c1550 Sc. obs.
► BADGER to torment; to tease; to nag → L18
► BAMFER to worry, to torment → 1895 Eng. dial.
► BUTCHER to torment or inflict torture upon a person → 1597 obs.
► CADDYPILLER ► CATERPILLAR ► CATTERPILLAR to plague, to torment; to make helpless → 1790 Eng. dial.
► COMMACERATE to make lean; to mortify, to harass, to torment → 1596 obs.
► CRUCIATE to afflict with grievous pain or distress; to torture, to torment → 1532 arch.
► HAG to torment or terrify as a hag; to trouble as the nightmare → 1598 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► HAG-RIDE to harass, to torment, esp. during sleep; to cause nightmares or nightmare-like experiences → 1661 Sc. & Amer. dial.
► HARRISH to harass, to worry, to torment, to trouble; to ravage → 1843 Ireland & Eng. dial.
► HARRY to worry, to goad, to torment, to harass; to maltreat, to ill-use, to persecute; to worry mentally; to bother → a1400-50
► HAUL to worry, to torment, to pester → 1678 obs. exc. Amer. dial.
► LICK THE MOLASSES OFF ONE’S BISCUIT to frustrate, to anger, to torment → 1978 Amer. dial.
► LICK THE RED OFF ONE’S CANDY to frustrate, to anger, to torment → 1972 Amer. dial.
► MARTYR to inflict grievous suffering or pain upon; to torment, to torture → c1240
► MAWK to baffle, to tease, to torment → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MIRACLE to tease, to torment, to hurt → 1896 Sc.  
► MOMMOCK ► MUMMICK to harass, to tease, to annoy, to torment, to impose on → 1946 Amer. dial.
► OFPINE to torment → a1300 obs.
► PERCRUCIATE to inflict intense torment upon; to torture → 1656
► PRICK to cause mental pain or discomfort to; to sting with sorrow or remorse; to grieve, to pain, to torment → a1000
► QUELM to torment; to kill, to destroy → c825 obs.
► RAG to annoy, to tease, to torment → 1808 Eng. dial. & sl.
► RAIM to affect with anguish, to torment → c1380 obs.
► TAG to tease, to torment → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► TERRIFY to annoy, to irritate; to tease, to worry; to importune; to torment, to pain → 1839 Eng. dial.
► TERRY to provoke, to torment → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► TINTREGHE to torment, to torture → c1175 obs.
► TO-TRAY to torment exceedingly → a1250 obs.
► TWIST to torment. to harass → c1450 obs.
► WHIP to vex, to torment; to punish, to chastise; to administer severe satire or reproof to; to castigate → 1530