Meaning Of The Word Torment

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Torment Meaning

Torment Definition
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What's The Definition Of Torment?

torment
countable noun: A torment is something that causes extreme suffering, usually mental suffering.
uncountable noun: Torment is extreme suffering, usually mental suffering.
verb: If something torments you, it causes you extreme mental suffering.
verb: If you torment a person or animal, you annoy them in a playful, rather cruel way for your own amusement.

torment in American English
an instrument of torture or the torture inflicted
to torture
noun: a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery
transitive verb: to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain

torment in British English
noun: physical or mental pain
verb: to afflict with great pain, suffering, or anguish; torture

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