Torment

  • 21torment — 1 noun 1 (U) severe mental or physical suffering, often lasting a long time: in torment: She lay awake all night in torment. 2 (C) someone or something that makes you suffer 2 verb (T) 1 to make someone suffer a lot, especially so that they feel… …

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  • 22torment — 1. noun 1) months of mental and emotional torment Syn: agony, suffering, torture, pain, anguish, misery, distress, affliction, trauma, wretchedness; hell, purgatory 2) it was a torment to see him like that Syn …

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  • 23torment — verb (t) /tɔˈmɛnt / (say taw ment) 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.… …

  • 24torment — n. & v. n. 1 severe physical or mental suffering (was in torment). 2 a cause of this. 3 archaic a torture. b an instrument of torture. v.tr. 1 subject to torment (tormented with worry). 2 tease or worry excessively (enjoyed tormenting the… …

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  • 25Torment — Здесь перечислены наборы расширения (англ. Expansion Set) или просто сеты карт для коллекционной карточной игры Magic: The Gathering, выпускаемой компанией Wizards of the Coast. Магия постоянно обновляется и дополняется за счёт новых карт в… …

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  • 26torment — 1. noun emotional torment Syn: agony, suffering, torture, pain, anguish, misery, distress, trauma 2. verb 1) she was tormented by shame Syn: torture, afflict, rack, harrow …

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  • 27torment — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French turment, torment, from Latin tormentum torture; akin to torquēre to twist more at torture Date: 14th century 1. the infliction of torture (as by rack or wheel) 2. extreme pain or anguish of… …

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  • 28torment — [13] The notion underlying torment is of an instrument of torture worked by ‘twisting’. The word was borrowed from Latin tormentum ‘instrument of torture’, hence ‘torture, great suffering’. This was a contraction of an earlier *torquementum, a… …

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  • 29torment — [ˈtɔːment] noun [C/U] I severe physical or mental pain, or something that causes this II verb [T] torment [tɔːˈment] to make someone suffer severe physical or mental pain tormentor noun [C] …

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  • 30torment — [13] The notion underlying torment is of an instrument of torture worked by ‘twisting’. The word was borrowed from Latin tormentum ‘instrument of torture’, hence ‘torture, great suffering’. This was a contraction of an earlier *torquementum, a… …

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