му́чить — meaning in English

English meaning

• bedevil verb To cause continual trouble or difficulty for someone or something.
• excruciate verb To cause someone severe physical pain or great mental suffering.
• maul noun A heavy hammer used for driving wedges when splitting logs, or as a weapon.
• nag verb To repeatedly pester or criticize someone about something, in an annoying way.
• pain noun An unpleasant physical sensation caused by injury or illness.
• pang noun A sudden, sharp burst of physical pain.
• rankle verb To keep causing annoyance or resentment over time.
• torment noun Severe physical or mental suffering.
• torture noun The deliberate infliction of severe pain, especially to punish someone or force information out of them.

Senses

му́чить is used for these senses in English:

• bedevil To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.
• excruciate (transitive) To inflict intense pain or mental distress on (someone); to torture.
• fash (transitive, Scotland, Geordie, Northern England) To worry; to bother, annoy.
• maul To handle someone or something in a rough way.
• nag To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.
• pang (transitive) To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture.
• rankle (transitive, or, intransitive) To cause irritation, bitterness or acrimony.
• torment (transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)

bedevil — full definition

1. verb To cause continual trouble or difficulty for someone or something.
2. verb To leave someone puzzled or unable to understand something.
3. verb To take hold of someone's mind, as a devil might.

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