Definition of torment Torment

/tɔˈɹmɛˌnt/ - [torment] - tor•ment

We found 19 definitions of torment from 6 different sources.

What does torment mean?

Verb torments, tormenting, tormented
torment - treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
		rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate
		chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, hassle, harass, plague, harry, molest, beset, provoke exhaust by attacking repeatedly; "harass the enemy"
		madden make mad; "His behavior is maddening"
		hamstring cripple by cutting the hamstring
		pester, badger, beleaguer, bug, tease persuade through constant efforts
		persecute, oppress cause to suffer; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union"
torment - torment emotionally or mentally
		torture, excruciate, rack
		anguish, pain, hurt suffer great pains or distress
torment - subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
		torture, excruciate
		wound, injure cause injuries or bodily harm to
		rack torture on the rack
		martyrise, martyrize, martyr torture and torment like a martyr

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torment (Noun)
A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
torment (Noun)
Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
torment (Noun)
Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
torment (Verb)
To cause severe suffering to.

torment (n.)
An engine for casting stones.
torment (n.)
Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.
torment (n.)
That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.
torment (v. t.)
To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture.
torment (v. t.)
To pain; to distress; to afflict.
torment (v. t.)
To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.
torment (v. t.)
To put into great agitation.

torment
tor′ment, n. torture: anguish: that which causes pain.—v.t. Torment′, to torture: to put to extreme pain, physical or mental: to distress: to afflict.—p.adj. Tormen′ted (U.S.), a euphemism for damned.—adj. Tormen′ting, causing torment.—adv. Tormen′tingly, in a tormenting manner.—ns. Tormen′tor, -er, one who, or that which, torments: (B.) a torturer, an executioner: a long meat-fork: a wing in the first groove of a stage; Tormen′tum, a whirligig. [O. Fr.,—L. tormentum, an engine for hurling stones—L. torquēre, to twist.]