Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TOR-MENT', v.t.

1. To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating pain and misery, either of body or mind. Art thou come hither to torment us before the time? Matth. viii. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone. Rev. xiv.
2. To pain; to distress. Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. Matth. viii.
3. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.
4. To put into great agitation. They soaring on main wing / Tormented all the air. [Unusual.] Milton.