Found 3 items, similar to torment.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: torment azab, mengazab, menyengsarakan, sikatan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: torment torment n 1: unbearable physical pain [syn: torture] 2: extreme mental distress [syn: anguish, torture] 3: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; “an agony of doubt”; “the torments of the damned” [syn: agony, torture] 4: a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; “so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors” [syn: harassment] 5: a severe affliction [syn: curse] 6: the act of harassing someone [syn: badgering, worrying, bedevilment] torment v 1: torment emotionally or mentally [syn: torture, excruciate, rack] 2: treat cruelly; “The children tormented the stuttering teacher” [syn: rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate] 3: subject to torture; “The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible” [syn: torture, excruciate]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Torment Torment \Tor"ment\, n. [OF. torment, F. tourment, fr. L. tormentum an engine for hurling missiles, an instrument of torture, a rack, torture, fr. torquere to turn, to twist, hurl. See Turture.] 1. (Mil. Antiq.) An engine for casting stones. [Obs.] --Sir T. Elyot. [1913 Webster] 2. Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] The more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. That which gives pain, vexation, or misery. [1913 Webster] They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments. --Matt. iv. 24. [1913 Webster] Torment \Tor*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. tormented; p. pr. & vb. n. tormenting.] [OF. tormenter, F. tourmenter.] 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. 29. [1913 Webster] 2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. [1913 Webster] Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. --Matt. viii. 6. [1913 Webster] 3. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] 4. To put into great agitation. [R.] ``[They], soaring on main wing, tormented all the air.'' --Milton. [1913 Webster]