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torment

2 verb
     
tor‧ment2 [transitive]
1 to make someone suffer a lot, especially mentally:
Seth was tormented by feelings of guilt.
2 to deliberately treat someone cruelly by annoying them or hurting them [= torture]:
The older boys would torment him whenever they had the chance.
—tormentor noun [countable]
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