Torment

[tor·ment]

By repeatedly trying to make someone miserable you torment them. The noun torment is the result of the verb torment.

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An engine for casting stones.

Noun
the act of harassing someone

Noun
a severe affliction

Noun
intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"

Noun
extreme mental distress

Noun
a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors"

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Noun
unbearable physical pain

Verb
subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"

Verb
torment emotionally or mentally

Verb
treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"

n.
An engine for casting stones.

n.
Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.

n.
That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.

v. t.
To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture.

v. t.
To pain; to distress; to afflict.

v. t.
To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.

v. t.
To put into great agitation.

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.
3. That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.
They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments.

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.
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.

An engine for casting stones.

To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture.

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Usage Examples

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

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Other Usage Examples

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.