'Torment' definitions:
Definition of 'torment'
(from WordNet)
noun
Unbearable physical pain [syn: torture, torment]
noun
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
verb
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
- abuse,
- afflict,
- affliction,
- aggravate,
- aggrieve,
- agonize,
- agonizingness,
- agony,
- ail,
- anguish,
- annoy,
- annoyance,
- annoyer,
- atrocious pain,
- badger,
- badgerer,
- bait,
- bane,
- be at,
- be the matter,
- bedevil,
- befoul,
- beset,
- bewitch,
- bite,
- blight,
- bloody,
- bother,
- break down,
- bring to tears,
- bristle,
- brown off,
- bug,
- bugbear,
- bully,
- bullyrag,
- burden,
- burn,
- burn up,
- calamity,
- chafe,
- chevy,
- chivy,
- claw,
- clawing,
- complicate matters,
- concern,
- condemn,
- confinement,
- convulse,
- corrupt,
- cruciation,
- crucifixion,
- crucify,
- crush,
- crushing burden,
- curse,
- cut,
- cut up,
- damage,
- death,
- defile,
- deprave,
- desolate,
- desolateness,
- desolation,
- despoil,
- destroy,
- destruction,
- devil,
- disadvantage,
- discommode,
- discompose,
- disease,
- dismemberment,
- disserve,
- distemper,
- distress,
- disturb,
- do a mischief,
- do evil,
- do ill,
- do wrong,
- do wrong by,
- dog,
- doom,
- draw tears,
- embitter,
- envenom,
- estrapade,
- evil,
- exasperate,
- excruciate,
- excruciatingness,
- excruciation,
- exercise,
- fash,
- fester,
- fret,
- fretting,
- gall,
- galleys,
- get,
- get into trouble,
- give pain,
- gnaw,
- grate,
- grievance,
- grieve,
- grind,
- gripe,
- harass,
- harasser,
- harassment,
- hard labor,
- harm,
- harrier,
- harrow,
- harry,
- haunt,
- heartbreak,
- heartsickness,
- heckle,
- heckler,
- hector,
- hell,
- hell upon earth,
- hex,
- holocaust,
- horror,
- hound,
- hunt,
- hurt,
- impair,
- impale,
- impalement,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- inconvenience,
- infect,
- inflame,
- inflict pain,
- infliction,
- injure,
- inundate,
- irk,
- irritate,
- irritation,
- jailing,
- jinx,
- keelhauling,
- kill by inches,
- lacerate,
- laceration,
- lancinate,
- lancination,
- macerate,
- maltreat,
- martyr,
- martyrdom,
- martyrization,
- martyrize,
- menace,
- miff,
- misery,
- mistreat,
- molest,
- nag,
- needle,
- needling,
- nemesis,
- nettle,
- nightmare,
- nip,
- nudnik,
- nudzh,
- nuisance,
- open wound,
- oppress,
- ordeal,
- outrage,
- overwhelm,
- pain,
- painfulness,
- passion,
- peeve,
- penal servitude,
- perplex,
- persecute,
- persecution,
- persecutor,
- perturb,
- pest,
- pester,
- pesterer,
- pestilence,
- pick on,
- picketing,
- pierce,
- pinch,
- pique,
- plague,
- plaguer,
- play havoc with,
- play hob with,
- pluck the beard,
- poison,
- pollute,
- pother,
- prejudice,
- prick,
- prolong the agony,
- prostrate,
- provoke,
- punish,
- purgatory,
- pursue,
- put out,
- put to it,
- put to torture,
- puzzle,
- rack,
- railriding,
- rankle,
- rasp,
- ride,
- rile,
- rip,
- rock pile,
- roil,
- rub,
- ruffle,
- running sore,
- sadist,
- savage,
- scarify,
- scathe,
- scourge,
- smite,
- sorrow,
- stab,
- sting,
- strappado,
- suffering,
- taint,
- tar-and-feathering,
- tease,
- teaser,
- the gantlet,
- thorn,
- threaten,
- tormentingness,
- tormentor,
- torture,
- torturousness,
- trouble,
- try,
- try the patience,
- tweak,
- tweak the nose,
- twist,
- vex,
- vexation,
- victimize,
- violate,
- visitation,
- woe,
- worriedness,
- worries and cares,
- worriment,
- worry,
- worrying,
- wound,
- wreak havoc on,
- wretchedness,
- wring,
- wrong