Torment definition
A source of harassment, annoyance, or pain.
noun
To annoy, harass, or tease.
verb
Great physical pain or mental anguish.
noun
To cause to undergo great physical pain or mental anguish.
verb
To annoy, pester, or harass.
Tormented by the children's pleas to be taken to the mall.
verb
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A source of pain, anxiety, or annoyance.
noun
(rare) To torture.
verb
To cause great physical pain or mental anguish in.
verb
The torture inflicted on prisoners under interrogation.
noun
(obs.) An instrument of torture or the torture inflicted.
noun
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Great pain or anguish, physical or mental; suffering; agony.
noun
(obs.) To stir up; agitate.
verb
Torment is pain, suffering, annoyance or anxiety.
An example of torment is a toothache.
An example of torment is Chinese water torture.
noun
To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)
The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.
verb
Origin of torment
- Middle English from Old French from Latin tormentum from torquēre to twist terkw- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Old French torment, from Latin tormentum (“something operated by twisting"), from torquere (“to twist").
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