Torment - meaning and definition. What is Torment
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What (who) is Torment - definition

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Torment (disambiguation); Torment (film); Torment (1950 film); Torment (album)

Torment         
·noun An engine for casting stones.
II. Torment ·vt To put into great agitation.
III. Torment ·noun That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.
IV. Torment ·noun Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.
V. Torment ·vt To Pain; to Distress; to Afflict.
VI. Torment ·vt To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to Torture.
VII. Torment ·vt To Tease; to Vex; to Harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.
torment         
v. (D; tr.) to torment into (to torment smb. into doing smt.)
torment         
(tormented)
1.
Torment is extreme suffering, usually mental suffering.
The torment of having her baby kidnapped is written all over her face.
= anguish
N-UNCOUNT
2.
A torment is something that causes extreme suffering, usually mental suffering.
Sooner or later most writers end up making books about the torments of being a writer...
N-COUNT
3.
If something torments you, it causes you extreme mental suffering.
At times the memories returned to torment her...
= torture
VERB: V n
4.
If you torment a person or animal, you annoy them in a playful, rather cruel way for your own amusement.
My older brother and sister used to torment me by singing it to me.
VERB: V n

Wikipedia

Torment

Torment may refer to:

  • The feeling of pain or suffering
  • Causing to suffer, torture
Examples of use of Torment
1. Evenimentul zilei says heat will torment Romania throughout this week.
2. Another summer holiday season, another season of torment for BA.
3. And the council‘s solution to her months of torment?
4. The prosecution said the murder culminated years of torment.
5. And the killing, the wounding and torment will go on.