torment : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: torment	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for torment
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
torment n unbearable physical pain Synonym(s): torture, torment extreme mental distress Synonym(s): anguish, torment, torture intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" Synonym(s): agony, torment, torture a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors" Synonym(s): harassment, torment a severe affliction Synonym(s): curse, torment the act of harassing someone Synonym(s): badgering, worrying, torment, bedevilment v torment emotionally or mentally [syn: torment, torture, excruciate, rack] treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" Synonym(s): torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible" Synonym(s): torture, excruciate, torment
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Torment \Tor"ment\, n. [OF. torment, F. tourment, fr. L. tormentum an engine for hurling missiles, an instrument of torture, a rack, torture, fr. torquere to turn, to twist, hurl. See {Turture}.] 1. (Mil. Antiq.) An engine for casting stones. [Obs.] --Sir T. Elyot. 2. Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind. --Chaucer. The more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. --Milton. 3. That which gives pain, vexation, or misery. They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments. --Matt. iv. 24.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Torment \Torment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {tormented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {tormenting}.] [OF. tormenter, F. tourmenter.] 1. To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. [bd] Art thou come hither to torment* us before our time? [b8] --Matt. viii. 29. 2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. --Matt. viii. 6. 3. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances. [Colloq.] 4. To put into great agitation. [R.] [bd][They], soaring on main wing, tormented all the air.[b8] --Milton.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Torment Gr. basanos (Matt. 4:24), the "touch-stone" of justice; hence inquisition by torture, and then any disease which racks and tortures the limbs.