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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.
4 days ago · T o torment is to afflict or harass as by incessant repetition of vexations or annoyances: to be tormented by doubts. T o 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.
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. [C13: from Old French, from Latin tormentum, from torquēre]
Torment definition: to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain. See examples of TORMENT used in a sentence.
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. Extra Examples. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Word Origin.
torment | definition in the Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary. Definition of torment – Learner’s Dictionary. torment. verb [ T ] uk / tɔːˈment / us. to make someone suffer or worry a lot: All evening the question tormented her. Want to learn more? Improve your vocabulary with English Vocabulary in Use from Cambridge.
