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torment
[ verb tawr-ment, tawr-ment; noun tawr-ment ]
verb (used with object)
- to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain:
to be tormented with violent headaches.
Synonyms: agonize, distress, vex, hector, harry
Antonyms: please
- to worry or annoy excessively:
to torment one with questions.
Synonyms: fret, trouble, needle, provoke, tease, pester, plague
- to throw into commotion; stir up; disturb.
noun
- a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery.
- something that causes great bodily or mental pain or suffering.
- a source of much trouble, worry, or annoyance.
- an instrument of torture, as the rack or the thumbscrew.
- the infliction of torture by means of such an instrument or the torture so inflicted.
torment
verb
- to afflict with great pain, suffering, or anguish; torture
- to tease or pester in an annoying way
stop tormenting the dog
noun
- physical or mental pain
- a source of pain, worry, annoyance, etc
- archaic.an instrument of torture
- archaic.the infliction of torture
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Derived Forms
- torˈmenting, adjectivenoun
- torˈmentedly, adverb
- torˈmented, adjective
- torˈmentingly, adverb
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Other Words From
- tor·mented·ly adverb
- tor·menting·ly adverb
- tor·menting·ness noun
- untor·mented adjective
- untor·menting adjective
- untor·menting·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of torment1
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Example Sentences
We are the sick ones who torment trans people every day of their lives.
They endure further torment as rates of rape, domestic violence and early marriage skyrocket in times of crisis.
Unlike the Cheneys, here is a man whose misdemeanors came to torment him.
Year after year they have to endure the torment of being required to live up to the role that Ernest Hemingway gave them.
The periodic agony that accompanies sickle cell was joined by the torment of persistent eye infections and repeated surgeries.
Before he faced Lettice, he must forget a moment—forget his fears, his hopes, his ceaseless torment of belief and doubt.
She could not be anything but a burden and a torment; her last years would probably be dreadful, both for herself and for others.
Deep within him he knew that he had become a stranger to his own wife and the realization sharply increased his torment.
But even an age of war and pestilence could be observed without torment from behind the protective shields of the Time Machine.
When the baby slept he was in torment lest he wake it, so that it would commence again to cry.
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