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TORMENT definition: 1. great mental suffering and unhappiness, or great physical pain: 2. great mental suffering and…. Learn more.
The meaning of TORMENT is extreme pain or anguish of body or mind : agony. How to use torment in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Torment.
TORMENT meaning: 1. great mental suffering and unhappiness, or great physical pain: 2. great mental suffering and…. Learn more.
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.
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.
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.
phrase [ plural ] Add to word list Add to word list. great mental suffering and unhappiness: go through torments Nothing can describe the torments we went through while we were waiting for news. Few poems convey the torments of war so effectively.
An action, circumstance, or condition which causes extreme pain or suffering of body or mind; a source of pain, trouble, or anguish, or in weakened sense, of worry or annoyance.
Torment Definition. tôrmĕnt. tormented, tormenting, torments. Meanings. Synonyms. Sentences. Definition Source. Word Forms. Origin. Noun. Verb. Filter. noun. torments. Great pain or anguish, physical or mental; suffering; agony. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. An instrument of torture or the torture inflicted. Webster's New World.
