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English

Pronunciation

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Noun

  1. Pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
  2. :He was bitter from the torments of the insipid divorce system.


Translations


Verb

  1. To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)
  2. :The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.


Translations

  • Arabic: يعذَِّب
  • German: quälen

Derived terms


de:torment fa:torment fr:torment io:torment hu:torment pl:torment ru:torment fi:torment ta:torment te:torment vi:torment tr:torment zh:torment

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Torment \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.
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2. To pain; to distress; to afflict.
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Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy,
grievously tormented. --Matt. viii.
6.
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3. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with
importunities, or with petty annoyances. [Colloq.]
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4. To put into great agitation. [R.] "[They], soaring on main
wing, tormented all the air." --Milton.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Torment \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.
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2. Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of
misery, either of body or mind. --Chaucer.
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The more I see
Pleasures about me, so much more I feel
Torment within me. --Milton.
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3. That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.
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They brought unto him all sick people that were
taken with divers diseases and torments. --Matt. iv.
24.
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WordNet torment
n 1: unbearable physical pain [syn: torture]
2: extreme mental distress [syn: anguish, torture]
3: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical
pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"
[syn: agony, torture]
4: a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented;
"so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his
tormentors" [syn: harassment]
5: a severe affliction [syn: curse]
6: the act of harassing someone [syn: badgering, worrying,
bedevilment]
v 1: torment emotionally or mentally [syn: torture, excruciate,
rack]
2: treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering
teacher" [syn: rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate]
3: subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell,
according to the Bible" [syn: torture, excruciate]
Moby Dictionary
abuse , afflict , affliction , aggravate , aggrieve , agonize ,
agonizingness , agony , ail , anguish , annoy , annoyance , annoyer ,
atrocious pain , badger , badgerer , bait , bane , be at , be the matter ,
bedevil , befoul , beset , bewitch , bite , blight , bloody , bother ,
break down , bring to tears , bristle , brown off , bug , bugbear ,
bully , bullyrag , burden , burn , burn up , calamity , chafe , chevy ,
chivy , claw , clawing , complicate matters , concern , condemn ,
confinement , convulse , corrupt , cruciation , crucifixion , crucify ,
crush , crushing burden , curse , cut , cut up , damage , death , defile ,
deprave , desolate , desolateness , desolation , despoil , destroy ,
destruction , devil , disadvantage , discommode , discompose , disease ,
dismemberment , disserve , distemper , distress , disturb ,
do a mischief , do evil , do ill , do wrong , do wrong by , dog , doom ,
draw tears , embitter , envenom , estrapade , evil , exasperate ,
excruciate , excruciatingness , excruciation , exercise , fash , fester ,
fret , fretting , gall , galleys , get , get into trouble , give pain ,
gnaw , grate , grievance , grieve , grind , gripe , harass , harasser ,
harassment , hard labor , harm , harrier , harrow , harry , haunt ,
heartbreak , heartsickness , heckle , heckler , hector , hell ,
hell upon earth , hex , holocaust , horror , hound , hunt , hurt , impair ,
impale , impalement , imprisonment , incarceration , inconvenience ,
infect , inflame , inflict pain , infliction , injure , inundate , irk ,
irritate , irritation , jailing , jinx , keelhauling , kill by inches ,
lacerate , laceration , lancinate , lancination , macerate , maltreat ,
martyr , martyrdom , martyrization , martyrize , menace , miff , misery ,
mistreat , molest , nag , needle , needling , nemesis , nettle ,
nightmare , nip , nudnik , nudzh , nuisance , open wound , oppress ,
ordeal , outrage , overwhelm , pain , painfulness , passion , peeve ,
penal servitude , perplex , persecute , persecution , persecutor ,
perturb , pest , pester , pesterer , pestilence , pick on , picketing ,
pierce , pinch , pique , plague , plaguer , play havoc with ,
play hob with , pluck the beard , poison , pollute , pother , prejudice ,
prick , prolong the agony , prostrate , provoke , punish , purgatory ,
pursue , put out , put to it , put to torture , puzzle , rack ,
railriding , rankle , rasp , ride , rile , rip , rock pile , roil , rub ,
ruffle , running sore , sadist , savage , scarify , scathe , scourge ,
smite , sorrow , stab , sting , strappado , suffering , taint ,
tar-and-feathering , tease , teaser , the gantlet , thorn , threaten ,
tormentingness , tormentor , torture , torturousness , trouble , try ,
try the patience , tweak , tweak the nose , twist , vex , vexation ,
victimize , violate , visitation , woe , worriedness ,
worries and cares , worriment , worry , worrying , wound ,
wreak havoc on , wretchedness , wring , wrong


Torment Gr. basanos (Matt. 4:24), the "touch-stone" of justice; hence inquisition by torture, and then any disease which racks and tortures the limbs.
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