- TORMENT Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
torment suggests persecution or the repeated inflicting of suffering or annoyance torture adds the implication of causing unbearable pain or suffering rack stresses straining or wrenching Noun No one could understand his inner torment After years of torment, she left her husband The mosquitoes were a constant torment
- TORMENTED | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
TORMENTED definition: 1 past simple and past participle of torment 2 to cause a person or animal to suffer or worry: Learn more
- Tormented - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
When you have a terrible decision to make, one that will end up hurting someone, you can say that you're tormented If you're terribly worried about your grandfather's heart surgery, you might have a tormented expression on your face as you sit in the hospital waiting room
- TORMENT definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
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 Meaning | Dictionary. com
verb (used with object) to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain to be tormented with violent headaches Synonyms: agonize, distress, vex, vex, hector, harry Antonyms: please to worry or annoy excessively
- Tormented - definition of tormented by The Free Dictionary
1 To cause to undergo great physical pain or mental anguish See Synonyms at afflict 2 To annoy, pester, or harass: tormented by the children's pleas to be taken to the mall
- torment noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
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 The flies were a terrible torment Definition of torment noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
- tormented, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
What does the adjective tormented mean? There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective tormented See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence This word is used in U S English OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions This entry has not yet been fully revised
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