Torment (Noun)
Meaning 1
Extreme mental distress.
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Nouns denoting feelings and emotions.
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Meaning 3
Unbearable physical pain.
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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- The patient's chronic illness had become a constant torment, leaving her unable to sleep or find relief.
- The burn victim's wounds were a torment, causing her excruciating pain with every movement.
- The athlete's injured knee was a torment, throbbing with pain after every game.
- The cancer patient's chemotherapy sessions were a torment, leaving her weak and nauseous.
- The victim of the car accident was trapped in a torment of broken bones and crushed limbs.
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Meaning 4
The act of harassing someone.
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 5
A feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors".
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Nouns denoting feelings and emotions.
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Meaning 6
Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned".
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Nouns denoting feelings and emotions.