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torment noun abomination, acute distress, affliction, agony, angst, anguish, annoyance, bane, constant anxiety, convulsion, despair, distress, extreme pain, harassment, misery, oppression, pain, pique, scourge, torture, vexation

torment verb abuse, anguish, annoy, badger, bait, beset, besiege, chafe, crucify, discompose, distress, excruciate, harass, harrow, harry, haze, hector, ill use, inflict, irritate, lacerate, maltreat, mistreat, molest, needle, nettle, obsess, persecute, pester, plague, press, provoke, rile, taunt, tease, treat maliciously, trouble, vex

See also: anguish, annoy, badger, bait, discompose, distress, endanger, goad, harass, harrow, harry, hector, inflict, infliction, irritate, mistreat, molest, obsess, oppression, pain, persecute, pique, plague, press, prey, provoke, trouble

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That is the chapter in which Raskolnikov has his first interview with the remarkable public prosecutor Porfiry Petrovitch, who turns out, paradoxically, to be tormentingly intimate with the criminal's psyche.

Richard Wright's long journey from Gorky to Dostoevsky by Peterson, Dale E. / African American Review

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