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What does "torment" mean?

Torment: Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind. Chaucer. The more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. Milton.

Additional senses

  1. 2.That which gives pain, vexation, or misery. They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments. Matt. iv.
  2. 3.1. To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. " Art thou come hither to torment us before our time " Matt. viii.
  3. 4.2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. Matt. viii.
  4. 5.3. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances. [Colloq.]
  5. 6.To put into great agitation. [R.] "[They], soaring on main wing, tormented all the air." Milton.

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