TORMENT Definition & Meaning | 亚洲网紅露点

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torment

[ verb tawr-ment, tawr-ment; noun tawr-ment ]

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verb (used with object)

to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain:
to be tormented with violent headaches.
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to worry or annoy excessively:
to torment one with questions.
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to throw into commotion; stir up; disturb.

noun

a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery.
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something that causes great bodily or mental pain or suffering.
a source of much trouble, worry, or annoyance.
an instrument of torture, as the rack or the thumbscrew.
the infliction of torture by means of such an instrument or the torture so inflicted.

torment

verb

to afflict with great pain, suffering, or anguish; torture
to tease or pester in an annoying way
stop tormenting the dog

noun

physical or mental pain
a source of pain, worry, annoyance, etc
archaic.
an instrument of torture
archaic.
the infliction of torture

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Derived Forms

迟辞谤藞尘别苍迟颈苍驳, adjectivenoun
迟辞谤藞尘别苍迟别诲濒测, adverb
迟辞谤藞尘别苍迟别诲, adjective
迟辞谤藞尘别苍迟颈苍驳ly, adverb

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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

迟辞谤路尘别苍迟顎侥诲路濒测 adverb
迟辞谤路尘别苍迟顎僫苍驳路濒测 adverb
迟辞谤路尘别苍迟顎僫苍驳路苍别蝉蝉 noun
耻苍顎卼辞谤路尘别苍迟顎侥诲 adjective
耻苍顎卼辞谤路尘别苍迟顎僫苍驳 adjective
un顎叧俅前烦颈鸩猿兕€僫苍驳路濒测 adverb

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of torment¹

First recorded in 1250鈥�1300; (noun) Middle English, from Old French, from Latin tormentum 鈥渞ope, catapult, torture,鈥� from unattested tork w -ment- ( torque, -ment ); (verb) Middle English tormenten, from Old French tormenter, derivative of torment (compare Late Latin 迟辞谤尘别苍迟腻谤别 )

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of torment¹

C13: from Old French, from Latin tormentum, from 迟辞谤辩耻脓谤别

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Synonym Study

Torment , rack , torture suggest causing great physical or mental pain, suffering, or harassment. To torment is to afflict or harass as by incessant repetition of vexations or annoyances: to be tormented by doubts. To rack is to affect with such pain as that suffered by one stretched on a rack; to concentrate with painful effort: to rack one's brains. To torture is to afflict with acute and more or less protracted suffering: to torture one by keeping one in suspense.

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The physical evidence strongly suggested that rather than hiking across a blazing desert after enduring weeks of torment, Aimee had gotten out of a car and walked a short distance to be discovered.

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But the wolves set up shop and torment the cattle.

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After spending time in the divine abyss, we鈥檙e back in reality, ripped from the stratosphere and placed into one of life鈥檚 most mundane torments: the hygienist鈥檚 chair.

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The film-maker is tormented by how a man who raised his voice for peace has become a victim of clan vengeance.

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Netflix said the documentary would give "insight into the pain and torment" that the families "went through for decades".

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