torment

torment (one) into (doing something)

1. To pester, harass, or aggravate one until they agree or submit to doing something. My older brother tormented me into investing in his startup company, even though I knew it was a bad idea. The children just complained and complained until they finally tormented their mother into buying them ice cream.
2. To force, compel, or coerce one into doing something through the use of violence, intimidation, or abuse. It has come to light that the corrupt police officer had tormented dozens of suspects into giving self-incriminating evidence or even downright confessions over the years. The autocracy has begun tormenting its citizens into complying with its authoritarian methods.
See also: torment
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

torment someone into doing something

to force someone to agree to do something through threats or maltreatment. You can't torment me into doing something I don't want to do! Alice was tormented into going on the picnic.
See also: torment
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • torment (one) into (doing something)
  • torment into doing
  • worry (something) out of (someone or something)
  • worry out of
  • beset
  • beset with
  • beset with (something)
  • badger into
  • pester (one) into (doing) (something)
  • pester into
References in classic literature
'to torment' and 'to instruct' might sometimes be used as synonymous words."
But historians are not accountable for the difficulty of learning to read; and even you yourself, who do not altogether seem particularly friendly to very severe, very intense application, may perhaps be brought to acknowledge that it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.
Northanger Abbey
The result was a fight in which Thomas got the worst, but, he had shown his fellows what he could do, he was tormented no longer.
English Literature For Boys And Girls
"I think I've hearn tell o' the Lord, and the judgment and torment. I've heard o' that."
I'd rather go to torment, and get away from Mas'r and Missis.
Uncle Toms Cabin
Now I took my hand from the flame, and for awhile the torment left me.
These are the marks of the fire in Chaka's hut--the fire that kissed me many, many years ago; I have had but little use of that hand since this night of torment. But my right arm yet remained to me, my father, and, ah!
Nada The Lily
Tormented, incited to hate, he was kept a prisoner so that there was no way of satisfying that hate except at the times his master saw fit to put another dog against him.
White Fang
Losing a loved one was bad enough but the torment was made all the worse because the killer refused to say where Helen's body was.
Mum's win for victims; VOICE OF THE
A man convicted of sexually abusing a minor, who was released early from prison in September last year by presidential pardon continues to torment the family of his victim, it emerged on Tuesday.
Released child molester fined after tormenting victim's family
Piers Morgan compared his Celebrity Chase 'torment' to The Jeremy Kyle Show
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Later, Mick is horrified when Fraser continues to torment him.
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After working with a VR avatar that "mirrored the behaviour of this demon", he credited the programme with diminishing his torment sufficiently for him to return to work and to a social life.
VR helping with devastating disorders
The rich man also died and was buried, and from the netherworld, where he was in torment, he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
The parable of the rich man and Lazarus
Yacht Club Games has officially released "Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment" on PC.
'Shovel Knight: Specter Of Torment' Now Out On PC