Dictionary Entry
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.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An engine for casting stones.
- 2noun
Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.
- 3noun
That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.
- 4transitive verb
To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture.
- 5transitive verb
To pain; to distress; to afflict.
- 6transitive verb
To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.
- 7transitive verb
To put into great agitation.
- 8noun
the act of harassing someone
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- 9noun
a severe affliction
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- 10noun
intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
"an agony of doubt"
"the torments of the damned"
- 11noun
extreme mental distress
- 12noun
a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
"so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors"
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- 13noun
unbearable physical pain
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- 14verb
subject to torture
"The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
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- 15verb
torment emotionally or mentally
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- 16verb
treat cruelly
"The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
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