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Definition of 'torment'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) torment
to afflict with great, usu. incessant or repeated bodily or mental suffering.

2.  torment
to worry or annoy excessively; plague.

3.  torment
to throw into commotion; stir up; disturb.

4. (n.) torment
a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery.

5.  torment
something that causes pain or suffering.

6.  torment
a source of much trouble, worry, or annoyance.

7.  torment
an instrument of torture, as the rack.

8.  torment
the infliction of torture.

Etymology: (1250–1300; ME < OF < L tormentum rope, catapult, torture; see torque¹, -ment)

Definition of 'torment'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) torture, torment
unbearable physical pain

2. (noun) anguish, torment, torture
extreme mental distress

3. (noun) agony, torment, torture
intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
"an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"

4. (noun) harassment, torment
a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
"so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors"

5. (noun) curse, torment
a severe affliction

6. (verb) badgering, worrying, torment, bedevilment
the act of harassing someone

7. (verb) torment, torture, excruciate, rack
torment emotionally or mentally

8. (verb) torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate
treat cruelly
"The children tormented the stuttering teacher"

9. (verb) torture, excruciate, torment
subject to torture
"The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"

Definition of 'torment'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) torment
an engine for casting stones

2. (noun) torment
extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind

3. (noun) torment
that which gives pain, vexation, or misery

4. (verb) torment
to put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture

5. (verb) torment
to pain; to distress; to afflict

6. (verb) torment
to tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances

7. (verb) torment
to put into great agitation

Translation of 'torment'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (a) very great pain, suffering, worry etc He was in torment.
Afrikaans: pyn, foltering	Arabic: آلام مُبَرِّحَه، عَذاب	Bulgarian: мъка
Brazilian: tormento	Czech: utrpení	German: die Qual
Danish: smerte	Greek: μαρτύριο	Spanish: tormento
Estonian: piin	Farsi: عذاب؛ شکنجه	Finnish: piina
French: tourment	Hebrew: יִיסוּרִים	Hindi: पीड़ा
Croatian: muka, patnja	Hungarian: kín	Indonesian: siksaan
Icelandic: kvöl	Italian: tormento	Japanese: 苦痛
Korean: 고통	Lithuanian: kančia	Latvian: mokas
Malay: seksa	Dutch: kwelling	Norwegian: pine, kval, lidelse
Polish: męka	Persian: عذاب؛ شکنجه	Pashto: عذاب، ربړ، ستونزه
Portuguese: tormento	Romanian: chin	Russian: мучение
Slovak: utrpenie	Slovenian: muka	Serbian: patnja
Swedish: plåga, pina, kval	Thai: ความทรมาน	Turkish: şiddetli acı, azap
Taiwanese: 痛苦	Ukrainian: мука; мордування	Urdu: سخت تکليف، اذيت
Vietnamese: nỗi đau	Chinese: 痛苦
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