'Torment' definitions:

Definition of 'torment'

From: WordNet
noun
Unbearable physical pain [syn: torture, torment]
noun
Extreme mental distress [syn: anguish, torment, torture]
noun
Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" [syn: agony, torment, torture]
noun
A feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors" [syn: harassment, torment]
noun
A severe affliction [syn: curse, torment]
noun
The act of harassing someone [syn: badgering, worrying, torment, bedevilment]
verb
Torment emotionally or mentally [syn: torment, torture, excruciate, rack]
verb
Treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" [syn: torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate]
verb
Subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible" [syn: torture, excruciate, torment]

Definition of 'Torment'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • The more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. That which gives pain, vexation, or misery. [1913 Webster]
  • They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments. --Matt. iv. 24. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Torment'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. [1913 Webster]
  • Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. --Matt. viii. 6. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To put into great agitation. [R.] "[They], soaring on main wing, tormented all the air." --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Torment'

From: Easton
  • 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.

Synonyms of 'torment'

From: Moby Thesaurus