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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
Derived Forms
- torˈmenting, adjectivenoun
- torˈmentedly, adverb
- torˈmented, adjective
- torˈmentingly, adverb
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
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of torment1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Dana explains in the edited-down interviews with Cosson — a theater director himself, whose voice you also hear on the tape — that this sit-down is the first time she has ever confided in detail the torment she underwent.
It has been a rough year for Whitman’s legacy but a splendid one for historical truth and for freeing the Cayuses from the long torment of a missionary’s lie.
Over the course of Sherwood Brown’s arrest, conviction and 28 years in prison, there were numerous points at which Mississippi could have done right by him, or at least ended his torment.
A few think pieces about the show have even argued that Ted himself functions as a sort of ersatz therapist for a world filled with conflict and torment.
It also was a source of torment at school, where she says she was made fun of for being poor.
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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