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Definitions for Torment

[1] to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
[2] to worry or annoy excessively: to torment one with questions.
[3] to throw into commotion; stir up; disturb.
[4] a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery.
[5] something that causes great bodily or mental pain or suffering.
[6] a source of much trouble, worry, or annoyance.
[7] an instrument of torture, as the rack or the thumbscrew.
[8] the infliction of torture by means of such an instrument or the torture so inflicted.
[9] to afflict with great pain, suffering, or anguish; torture
[10] to tease or pester in an annoying way stop tormenting the dog
[11] physical or mental pain
[12] a source of pain, worry, annoyance, etc
[13] archaic an instrument of torture
[14] archaic the infliction of torture

Words related to Torment

pain, torture, agony, affliction, suffering, misery, persecution, anguish, bedevil, annoy, nag, tease, vex, bother, pester, irritate, hurt, harass, plague, smite

Words nearby Torment

toric, toric lens, tories, torii, torino, torment, tormentil, tormentor, tormé, torn, torn between, be

Origin of Torment

1250–1300; (noun) Middle English < Old French < Latin tormentum rope, catapult, torture < *tork w -ment- (see torque, -ment); (v.) Middle English tormenten < Old French tormenter, derivative of torment (compare Late Latin tormentāre )

Other words from Torment

tor·ment·ed·ly , adverb
tor·ment·ing·ly , adverb
tor·ment·ing·ness , noun
un·tor·ment·ed , adjective
un·tor·ment·ing , adjective
un·tor·ment·ing·ly , adverb

Word origin for Torment

C13: from Old French, from Latin tormentum, from torquēre

Synonyms for Torment

affliction, agony, anguish, misery, pain, persecution, suffering, torture, annoyance, bane, bother, excruciation, harassment, hell, irritation, nag, nagging, nuisance, pest, plague, provocation, rack, scourge, trouble, vexation, worry, pain in the neck