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Synonyms for torment
tɔrˈmɛnt, ˈtɔr mɛnt; ˈtɔr mɛnttor·ment
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
torment
Pain is the most general term of this group, including all the others; pain is a disturbing sensation from which nature revolts, resulting from some injurious external interference (as from a wound, a bruise, a harsh word, etc.), or from some lack of what one needs, craves, or cherishes (as, the pain of hunger or bereavement), or from some abnormal action of bodily or mental functions (as, the pains of disease, envy, or discontent). Suffering is one of the severer forms of pain. The prick of a needle causes pain, but we should scarcely speak of it as suffering. Distress is too strong a word for little hurts, too feeble for the intensest suffering, but commonly applied to some continuous or prolonged trouble or need; as, the distress of a shipwrecked crew, or of a destitute family. Ache is lingering pain, more or less severe; pang, a pain short, sharp, intense, and perhaps repeated. We speak of the pangs of hunger or of remorse. Throe is a violent and thrilling pain. Paroxysm applies to an alternately recurring and receding pain, which comes as it were in waves; the paroxysm is the rising of the wave. Torment and torture are intense and terrible sufferings. Agony and anguish express the utmost pain or suffering of body or mind. Agony of body is that with which the system struggles; anguish that by which it is crushed.
Synonyms:
ache, agony, anguish, distress, pain, pang, paroxysm, suffering, throe, torture, twinge, wo(e)Antonyms:
comfort, delight, ease, enjoyment, peace, rapture, relief, solace
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Princeton's WordNet
torture, tormentnoun
unbearable physical pain
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badgering, harassment, worrying, overrefinement, torturing, agony, torture, anguish, bedevilment, curse, twisting, distortion, straininganguish, torment, torturenoun
extreme mental distress
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badgering, distortion, worrying, overrefinement, torturing, straining, harassment, torture, anguish, bedevilment, twisting, agony, curseagony, torment, torturenoun
intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
"an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"
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badgering, distortion, worrying, overrefinement, torturing, straining, harassment, excruciation, torture, anguish, bedevilment, suffering, twisting, agony, curseharassment, tormentnoun
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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badgering, worrying, molestation, harassment, torture, anguish, bedevilment, agony, cursecurse, tormentnoun
a severe affliction
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bedevilment, whammy, scourge, expletive, condemnation, swearing, curse word, jinx, oath, badgering, worrying, curse, execration, cuss, harassment, agony, torture, swearword, nemesis, anguish, bane, hexbadgering, worrying, torment, bedevilmentverb
the act of harassing someone
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badgering, worrying, anguish, harassment, torture, bedevilment, agony, cursetorment, torture, excruciate, rackverb
torment emotionally or mentally
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squeeze, gouge, bedevil, wring, extort, rack, rag, single-foot, excruciate, torture, crucify, scud, dun, frustratetorment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrateverb
treat cruelly
"The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
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bawl out, chide, confound, befuddle, cross, lambast, foil, fox, savage, nark, tease, frustrate, bedevil, spoil, take to task, bother, blast, rile, rack, gravel, excruciate, trounce, bilk, rally, dun, get to, berate, thwart, torture, crucify, chew out, pillory, baffle, nettle, throw, scotch, chafe, ride, get at, subdue, lecture, irritate, have words, reproof, razz, call down, tantalise, mortify, annoy, tantalize, reprimand, cod, scold, taunt, rebuke, rag, jaw, discombobulate, vex, lambaste, chew up, dress down, confuse, call on the carpet, remonstrate, bait, twit, devil, fuddletorture, excruciate, tormentverb
subject to torture
"The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
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bedevil, rack, rag, excruciate, torture, crucify, dun, frustrate
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tormentnoun
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ANGUISH, agony, torture, rack, pang, extreme pain, excruciating pain, acute distresstormentverb
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torture, distress, agonize, rack, excruciate, pain extremely, put to the rack, put to torturetormentverb
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tease, vex, plague, harass, worry, harry, badger, fret, irritate, nettle, provoke, tantalize, trouble, annoy
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God, if you exist behind the Holy Scriptures then you have abandoned me. In war hundreds are killed and tortured and they are left there to rot and feed the vultures. And yet, we glorify our warriors. We give them laurel wreaths and honors. But all I get is torment, I cannot be humiliated this way. Give me an illness that will kill me fast. I cannot do it myself, I must go to heaven. Amen.
Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.)
We will have to respond to the new ways that bully states will come up with to attack patients and providers, our mission is clear: If you want to come after people seeking care or their providers, if your mission is to torment trans kids and their families, you're going to have to get through all of us first.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
It is unacceptable for any employer to try to silence a worker because he or she was a victim of any type of harassment or discrimination -- whether due to race, sexual orientation, religion, age or any other characteristic, sB 331 will empower survivors to speak out -- if they so wish -- so they can hold perpetrators accountable and hopefully prevent abusers from continuing to torment and abuse other workers.
Translations for torment
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- تعذيب, عزّبArabic
- turmentar, turmentCatalan, Valencian
- utrpeníCzech
- smerteDanish
- quälen, QualGerman
- μαρτύριοGreek
- turmenti, turmentoEsperanto
- tormento, atormentarSpanish
- piinEstonian
- piina, tuska, piinataFinnish
- tourment, tourmenterFrench
- cráighIrish
- kínHungarian
- չարչարանքArmenian
- menghantui, azab, mengazab, keazabanIndonesian
- tenaliagarIdo
- kvölIcelandic
- tormento, cruccio, tormentare, tarloItalian
- 苦痛Japanese
- 고통, 苦痛Korean
- cruciatusLatin
- kančiaLithuanian
- mokasLatvian
- whakatīwhetaMāori
- kwellen, kwellingDutch
- lidelse, kval, pineNorwegian
- trapić, udręka, męczyć, męka, nękaćPolish
- atormentar, tormento, maltratar, judiarPortuguese
- chinui, turment, zbucium, tortura, chinRomanian
- мука, мучение, истязать, мучитьRussian
- tromentu, turmentu, tormentu, trumentuSardinian
- utrpenieSlovak
- mukaSlovene
- pina, kval, plågaSwedish
- வேதனைTamil
- şiddetli acı, azapTurkish
- мучитиUkrainian
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