TORMENT

badgering, worrying, torment, bedevilment

(noun) the act of harassing someone

curse, torment

(noun) a severe affliction

agony, torment, torture

(noun) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; “an agony of doubt”; “the torments of the damned”

anguish, torment, torture

(noun) extreme mental distress

harassment, torment

(noun) a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; “so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors”

torture, torment

(noun) unbearable physical pain

torture, excruciate, torment

(verb) subject to torture; “The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible”

torment, torture, excruciate, rack

(verb) torment emotionally or mentally

torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate

(verb) treat cruelly; “The children tormented the stuttering teacher”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

torment (countable and uncountable, plural torments)

(obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.

Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.

Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.

Synonyms

• See also pain

Verb

torment (third-person singular simple present torments, present participle tormenting, simple past and past participle tormented)

(transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)

Source: Wiktionary

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Tor"ment, n. Etym: [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.)

Definition: 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. Milton.

3. That which gives pain, vexation, or misery. They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments. Matt. iv. 24.

Tor*ment", v. t. [imp. & p. p. tormented; p. pr. & vb. n. tormenting.] Etym: [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. Matt. viii. 6.

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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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