torment
torment is a 7-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An engine for casting stones. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. An engine for casting stones.
- noun. Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.
- noun. That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.
- transitive verb. To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture.
- transitive verb. To pain; to distress; to afflict.
- transitive verb. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.
- transitive verb. To put into great agitation.
- noun. the act of harassing someone
- noun. a severe affliction
- noun. intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
"an agony of doubt"
"the torments of the damned"
- noun. extreme mental distress
- noun. a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
"so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors"
- noun. unbearable physical pain
- verb. subject to torture
"The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
- verb. torment emotionally or mentally
- verb. treat cruelly
"The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
Synonyms
badgering, bedevilment, worrying, curse, agony, torture, anguish, harassment, excruciate, rack, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, rag
Common word forms
torments, tormented, tormenter, tormentful, tormenting, tormentous, tormentable
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