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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.
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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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Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights:
Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood:
It just boggles my mind you would torment and beat and place a kid in the oven and yet you walk around on two feet, animals don’t treat their kids the way this guy treated this little girl.
Today's society has decided it's better to assume, deceive or lie to ourselves to spare our own feelings. When accepted the truth will set us free. Anything aside from that will torment us. Feelings are made from thoughts; thoughts can be controled. We fall in love because we THINK about how wonderful someone is; we hate because we can't stop THINKING about what they did to us. In the end, WE control our own thoughts and feelings.
William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790:
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.
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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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