torment

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented

   Their torment was so great that they wanted to destroy their harassers.

2. 2
   verb

   subject to torture

   The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible

3. 3
   verb

   treat cruelly

   The children tormented the stuttering teacher

4. 4
   noun

   Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.

   I've gone through living torment.

5. 5
   noun

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

   He behaved bitter from the torments of the divorce.

6. 6
   verb

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

   The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.

7. 7
   noun

   the act of harassing someone

8. 8
   noun

   a severe affliction

Etymology

From Middle English torment, from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum (“something operated by twisting”), from torquere (“to twist”).