Torment
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- Etymology - From Old French torment, from Latin tormentum (“something operated by twisting"), from torquere (“to twist").
- Pronunciation (noun) (UK) IPA
- /ˈtɔ"mɛnt/ (verb) (UK) IPA: /tɔ"ˈmɛnt/
- Noun - torment (plural torments)
- 1.(obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
- 2.Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
- 3.Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
- He was bitter from the torments of the insipid divorce system.
- Synonyms
- See also pain
- Verb - to torment (third-person singular simple present torments, present participle tormenting, simple past, and past participle tormented)
- 1.(transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)
- The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.
- Derived terms
- tormentor
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