Torment emotionally or mentally.

synonyms: rack, torment, torture.

Roget 378: feel pain, experience pain, suffer pain, undergo pain etc. n.; suffer, ache, smart, bleed; tingle, shoot; twinge, twitch, lancinate^†; writhe, wince, make a wry face; sit on thorns, sit on pins and needles.    give pain, inflict pain; lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite, gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring, convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize; crucify; cruciate^†, excruciate^†; break on the wheel, put to the rack; flog etc. (punish) 972; grate on the ear etc. (harsh sound) 410.    ... show more

Dutch: afknijpen, geselen, kwellen, martelen, pijnigen, plagen, teisteren, tormenteren

Subject to torture.

synonyms: torment, torture.

Dutch: folteren, martelen, pijnigen