torment
has definitions from the fields of psychology,medicine
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[ noun ] (medicine) unbearable physical pain
Synonyms Used in print (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)Hell 's own amount of chaulmoogra_oil did nothing to alleviate their torment ; they expired amid indescribable fantods , imploring the Blessed_One to forgive their desecration . |
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[ noun ] intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
Examples "an agony of doubt" "the torments of the damned" Used in print (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)They caused my love for Jessica to become warmer and at_the_same_time more hopeless , as if my adolescent self knew that only torment would ever bring me the courage to ask to see her again . |
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[ verb ] torment emotionally or mentally
Synonyms Used in print (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)The tensions accompanying a repressive consciousness of wrongdoing or sinning or some tormenting secret are relieved for the less self-contained or self-sufficient by confession , repentance , and penance . |
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[ noun ] a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
Synonyms Examples "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors" Related terms |
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[ verb ] subject to torture
Synonyms Examples "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible" |
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[ noun ] the act of harassing someone
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