torment

Plural: torments

Noun

• unbearable physical pain
• extreme mental distress
• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
  • "the torments of the damned"
• a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
  • "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors"
• a severe affliction
• the act of harassing someone
• A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
• Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
• Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.

Verb

Verb Forms: tormented, tormenting, torments

• To inflict severe physical or mental suffering upon someone.
• torment emotionally or mentally
• treat cruelly
  • "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
• subject to torture
  • "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
• To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)

Examples

• He was bitter from the torments of the divorce.
• The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.
• The timer began to TORMENT him as he struggled to find a seven-letter word.

Synonyms

agony, anguish, badgering, bedevil, bedevilment, crucify, curse, dun, excruciate, frustrate, harassment, rack, rag, torture, worrying, ache, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, atray, cag, dere, difficulty, distress, engrieve, grame, grief, harass, hardship, harrow, harry, hurt, irritate, misery, pain, pang, pine, plague, rend, smart, throe, torment, trouble, vex, wark, wring

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