torment
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torment
- /ˈtɔː(ɹ)mɛnt/
- /ˈtɔː(ɹ)mənt/
- /tɔː(ɹ)ˈmɛnt/
Rhymes with -ɛnt
Where it comes from
From Middle English torment, from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum (“something operated by twisting”), from torquere (“to twist”).
noun torments
- A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
- Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture. I've gone through living torment.
- Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental. He behaved bitter from the torments of the divorce.
verb torments · tormenting · tormented
- To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.) The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.
