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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

ngoại động từ
- làm đau khổ, giày vò, day dứt
  - to be tormented with remorse: đau khổ day dứt, vì hối hận

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

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.

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