torment
US: /ˈtɔɹˌmɛnt/, /tɔɹˈmɛnt/
English Vietnamese dictionary
torment /'tɔ:mənt/
- danh từ
- sự đau khổ, sự giày vò, sự day dứt, sự giằn vặt; nỗi thống khổ, nỗi đau đớn (thể xác, tinh thần)
- to be in torment: đau khổ
- to suffer torment: chịu đau khổ
- nguồn đau khổ
- sự đau khổ, sự giày vò, sự day dứt, sự giằn vặt; nỗi thống khổ, nỗi đau đớn (thể xác, tinh thần)
- ngoại động từ
- làm đau khổ, giày vò, day dứt
- to be tormented with remorse: đau khổ day dứt, vì hối hận
- làm đau khổ, giày vò, day dứt
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun [U, C] (written) extreme suffering, especially mental suffering; a person or thing that causes this: the cries of a man in torment + She suffered years of mental torment after her son's death. + The flies were a terrible torment.
+ verb [VN]
1 (written) to make sb suffer very much: He was tormented by feelings of insecurity.
2 to annoy a person or an animal in a cruel way because you think it is amusing
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 torture, abuse, maltreat, mistreat, distress, agonize, excruciate, crucify, harrow, rack, pain:
Hunger tormented his weary body.
2 worry, trouble, plague, annoy, bedevil, vex, harry, badger, hector, harass, pester, nag, persecute, needle, nettle, irk, irritate, bother, torture, afflict, Brit chivvy or chivy or chevy:
I was tormented by the suspicion that something was wrong.
n.
3 agony, wretchedness, anguish, distress, misery, pain, woe, painfulness, torture, suffering, curse, hell:
How can parents endure the torment of losing a child?
4 worry, vexation, annoyance, harassment, ordeal, persecution, needling, nuisance, bane, irritation, bother, affliction, scourge, torture:
For yet another day I had to suffer the torment of their company.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
great | inner, mental, private
VERB + TORMENT
endure, suffer
She has suffered great mental torment.
| be released from
PREP.
in ~
He was a man in torment.
PHRASES
a soul in torment
The sea wailed like a soul in torment.
Concise English dictionary
torments|tormented|tormentingtɔr'ment /tɔː-
noun
+unbearable physical pain
+extreme mental distress
+intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
+a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
+a severe affliction
+the act of harassing someone
verb
+torment emotionally or mentally
+treat cruelly
+subject to torture
