torment

torment
tor|ment1 [ `tɔr,ment ] noun
count or uncount severe physical or mental pain that someone suffers, often caused deliberately by someone else:
Her eyes revealed the torment in her mind.
The prisoners would soon suffer worse torments.
a. count usually singular someone or something that makes you suffer severe physical or mental pain:
Just living in the same house with him was a torment.
torment
tor|ment 2 [ tɔr`ment ] verb transitive
1. ) to make someone suffer severe physical or mental pain, often deliberately:
She was tormented by her memories.
2. ) to annoy someone, especially for fun:
The bigger kids keep tormenting him.
╾ tor|men|tor noun count

Usage of the words and phrases in modern English. 2013.

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  • torment — Torment, Tormentum, Torsio, Afflictatio, Crux, Cruciatus. Tormens intolerables à l homme, Intolerandi humanae prudentiae cruciatus. Liu. lib. 23. Grief torment, Vexatio. Estant en tourment, Inter poenam. En grand torment, Cruciabiliter. C est… …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

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  • Torment — Tor*ment , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {tormented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {tormenting}.] [OF. tormenter, F. tourmenter.] 1. To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. Art thou come hither to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • torment — [n] severe mental distress affliction, agony, anguish, annoyance, bane, bother, excruciation, harassment, hell, irritation, misery, nag, nagging, nuisance, pain, pain in the neck*, persecution, pest, plague, provocation, rack, scourge, suffering …   New thesaurus

  • torment — I noun abomination, acute distress, affliction, agony, angst, anguish, annoyance, bane, constant anxiety, convulsion, despair, distress, extreme pain, harassment, infliction, misery, oppression, pain, pique, scourge, torture, vexation II verb… …   Law dictionary

  • torment — vb torture, rack, *afflict, try Analogous words: *worry, annoy, harry, harass, plague, pester: distress, *trouble: *bait, badger, hector: agonize, *writhe …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • torment — [tôr′ment΄; ] for v. [ tôr ment′, tôr′ment΄] n. [OFr < L tormentum, a rack, instrument of torture, torture, pain, orig., machine for twisting or throwing < torquere, to twist, whirl around, fling: see TORT] 1. Obs. an instrument of torture… …   English World dictionary

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