torment
- (noun): A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
- (noun): Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
- (noun): Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
- (verb): To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)
- He was bitter from the torments of the divorce system.
- The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.