1. [n]  the act of harassing someone
2. [n]  a severe affliction
3. [n]  intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"
4. [n]  extreme mental distress
5. [n]  a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors"
6. [n]  unbearable physical pain
7. [v]  subject to torture
8. [v]  torment emotionally or mentally
9. [v]  treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"

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1. \Tor"ment\, n. [OF. torment, F. tourment, fr. L.
   tormentum an engine for hurling missiles, an instrument of
   torture, a rack, torture, fr. torquere to turn, to twist,
   hurl. See {Turture}.]
   1. (Mil. Antiq.) An engine for casting stones. [Obs.] --Sir
      T. Elyot.
   2. Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of
      misery, either of body or mind. --Chaucer.
            The more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I
            feel Torment within me.               --Milton.
   3. That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.
            They brought unto him all sick people that were
            taken with divers diseases and torments. --Matt. iv.
                                                  24.
   

2. \Tor*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {tormented}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {tormenting}.] [OF. tormenter, F. tourmenter.]
   1. To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating
      misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. `` Art
      thou come hither to torment us before our time? '' --Matt.
      viii. 29.
   2. To pain; to distress; to afflict.
            Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy,
            grievously tormented.                 --Matt. viii.
                                                  6.
   3. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with
      importunities, or with petty annoyances. [Colloq.]
   4. To put into great agitation. [R.] ``[They], soaring on
      main wing, tormented all the air.'' --Milton.
   

Gr. basanos (Matt. 4:24), the "touch-stone" of justice; hence inquisition by torture, and then any disease which racks and tortures the limbs.