torment

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]

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]

English

Pronunciation

Noun

1. Pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.

   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.)

   The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.

Translations

Derived terms

• tormentor

Torment may refer to the following:

• The feeling of pain or suffering.
• Causing to suffer, torture.
• Torment (film) (Hets), 1944 film, directed by Alf Sjöberg, screenplay by Ingmar Bergman
• Torment (Magic: The Gathering), a Magic: The Gathering expansion set released in 2002
• Planescape: Torment, a computer game
• Torment (Mechanical Moth album), an album by Mechanical Moth

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