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noun
- 1. severe physical or mental suffering: "their deaths have left both families in torment"
verb
- 1. cause to experience severe mental or physical suffering: "he was tormented by jealousy"
torment. verb [ T ] us / tɔːrˈment / uk / tɔːˈment /. to cause a person or animal to suffer or worry: The animals are tormented mercilessly by flies and mosquitoes. be tormented by/with The camera focused on a group of women whose faces were tormented by/with (= showed that they were suffering) grief.
1. /ˈtɔrˌmɛnt/ intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain. 2. /ˌtɔrˈmɛnt/ make suffer emotionally or mentally. IPA guide. Other forms: tormented; torments; tormenting. By repeatedly trying to make someone miserable you torment them. The noun torment is the result of the verb torment.
1. to afflict with great pain, suffering, or anguish; torture. 2. to tease or pester in an annoying way: stop tormenting the dog. n. 3. physical or mental pain. 4. a source of pain, worry, annoyance, etc. 5. archaic an instrument of torture. 6. archaic the infliction of torture.
torment. noun. /ˈtɔːment/. /ˈtɔːrment/. [uncountable, countable] (formal) extreme pain, especially mental pain; a person or thing that causes this synonym anguish. She suffered years of mental torment after her son's death. in torment the cries of a man in torment. The flies were a terrible torment.
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 make someone suffer or worry a lot: All evening the question tormented her. tormentor. noun [ C ] torment. noun [ C, U ] uk / ˈtɔːment / us. extreme unhappiness or pain. (Definition of torment from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of torment. in Chinese (Traditional) 折磨, 痛苦, 痛苦（或煩惱）之源… See more.
4 days ago · The verb is pronounced (tɔːʳment ). Torment is extreme suffering, usually mental suffering. He spent days in torment while the police searched for his stolen car. A torment is something that causes extreme suffering, usually mental suffering. Outdoors, mosquitoes and midges were a perpetual torment.
