Bedevil(verb): to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
Author's Comments:
Another one from 12th grade Creative Writing. We had to base a story off a picture, and mine was a middle aged man holding a chair above his head, poised to hit this lump under the carpet. I just read some Edgar Allen Poe before writing this too, good times. ^_^
