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
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for torment is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does torment appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — torment appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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