n. 25B6; noun
months of mental and emotional torment : AGONY, suffering, torture, pain, anguish, misery, distress, affliction, trauma, wretchedness; hell, purgatory.
it was a torment to see him like that : ORDEAL, affliction, scourge, curse, plague, bane, thorn in someone's side/flesh, cross to bear; sorrow, tribulation, trouble.
25B6; verb
she was tormented by shame : TORTURE, afflict, rack, harrow, plague, haunt, distress, agonize.
she began to torment the two younger boys : TEASE, taunt, bait, harass, provoke, goad, plague, bother, trouble, persecute; informal needle.