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tor⋅ment
[v. tawr-ment, tawr-ment; n. tawr-ment] 
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches. |
| 2. | to worry or annoy excessively: to torment one with questions. |
| 3. | to throw into commotion; stir up; disturb. |
–noun
| 4. | a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery. |
| 5. | something that causes great bodily or mental pain or suffering. |
| 6. | a source of much trouble, worry, or annoyance. |
| 7. | an instrument of torture, as the rack or the thumbscrew. |
| 8. | the infliction of torture by means of such an instrument or the torture so inflicted. |
Origin:
1250–1300; (n.) ME < OF < L tormentum rope, catapult, torture < *torkw-ment- (see torque, -ment ); (v.) ME tormenten < OF tormenter, deriv. of torment (cf. LL tormentāre)
1250–1300; (n.) ME < OF < L tormentum rope, catapult, torture < *torkw-ment- (see torque, -ment ); (v.) ME tormenten < OF tormenter, deriv. of torment (cf. LL tormentāre)
Related forms:
tor⋅ment⋅ed⋅ly, adverb
tor⋅ment⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
tor⋅ment⋅ing⋅ness, noun
Synonyms:
1. harry, hector, vex, distress, agonize. Torment, rack, torture suggest causing great physical or mental pain, suffering, or harassment. To torment is to afflict or harass as by incessant repetition of vexations or annoyances: to be tormented by doubts. To rack is to affect with such pain as that suffered by one stretched on a rack; to concentrate with painful effort: to rack one's brains. To torture is to afflict with acute and more or less protracted suffering: to torture one by keeping one in suspense. 2. plague, pester, tease, provoke, needle, trouble, fret. 4. torture, distress, anguish.
1. harry, hector, vex, distress, agonize. Torment, rack, torture suggest causing great physical or mental pain, suffering, or harassment. To torment is to afflict or harass as by incessant repetition of vexations or annoyances: to be tormented by doubts. To rack is to affect with such pain as that suffered by one stretched on a rack; to concentrate with painful effort: to rack one's brains. To torture is to afflict with acute and more or less protracted suffering: to torture one by keeping one in suspense. 2. plague, pester, tease, provoke, needle, trouble, fret. 4. torture, distress, anguish.
Antonyms:
1. please.
1. please.
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| tor·ment (tôr'měnt') n.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin tormentum, from torquēre, to twist; see terkw- in Indo-European roots.] tor·ment'ing·ly adv. |
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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. 2. Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind. --Chaucer. The more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. --Milton. 3. That which gives pain, vexation, or misery. They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments. --Matt. iv. 24.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. 2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. --Matt. viii. 6. 3. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances. [Colloq.] 4. To put into great agitation. [R.] "[They], soaring on main wing, tormented all the air." --Milton.
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Language Translation for : torment
Spanish:
tormento,
German:
die Qual,
Japanese:
苦痛
torment (n.)
c.1290, "inflicting of torture," also "state of great suffering," from O.Fr. tourment (11c.), from L. tormentum "twisted sling, rack," related to torquere "to twist" (see thwart). The verb is first recorded c.1290, from O.Fr. tormenter (12c.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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