About The Word Torment
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Torment
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What's The Definition Of Torment?
[n] the act of harassing someone
[n] a severe affliction [n] intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" [n] extreme mental distress [n] a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors" [n] unbearable physical pain [v] subject to torture [v] torment emotionally or mentally [v] treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" Synonyms | Synonyms for Torment: agony | anguish | badgering | bedevil | bedevilment | crucify | curse | dun | excruciate | excruciate | frustrate | harassment | rack | rag | torture | torture | torture | torture | worrying Related Terms | Find terms related to Torment: See Also | affliction | anguish | annoyance | badger | beleaguer | beset | bug | chafe | chevvy | chevy | chivvy | chivy | distress | hamstring | harass | harassment | harry | hassle | hurt | hurt | hurting | injure | madden | martyr | martyrise | martyrize | molest | molestation | oppress | pain | pain | persecute | pester | plague | provoke | rack | suffering | tease | vexation | wound Torment In Webster's Dictionary \Tor"ment\, n. [OF. torment, F. tourment, fr. L.
tormentum an engine for hurling missiles, an instrument of
torture, a rack, torture, fr. torquere to turn, to twist,
hurl. See {Turture}.]
1. (Mil. Antiq.) An engine for casting stones. [Obs.] --Sir
T. Elyot.
2. Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of
misery, either of body or mind. --Chaucer.
The more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I
feel Torment within me. --Milton.
3. That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.
They brought unto him all sick people that were
taken with divers diseases and torments. --Matt. iv.
24.
\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 torment us before our time? '' --Matt. viii. 29. 2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. --Matt. viii. 6. 3. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances. [Colloq.] 4. To put into great agitation. [R.] ``[They], soaring on main wing, tormented all the air.'' --Milton. |
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