Synonyms for torment
tɔrˈmɛnt, ˈtɔr mɛnt; ˈtɔr mɛnttor·ment

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1. torment

   Pain is the most general term of this group, including all the others; pain is a disturbing sensation from which nature revolts, resulting from some injurious external interference (as from a wound, a bruise, a harsh word, etc.), or from some lack of what one needs, craves, or cherishes (as, the pain of hunger or bereavement), or from some abnormal action of bodily or mental functions (as, the pains of disease, envy, or discontent). Suffering is one of the severer forms of pain. The prick of a needle causes pain, but we should scarcely speak of it as suffering. Distress is too strong a word for little hurts, too feeble for the intensest suffering, but commonly applied to some continuous or prolonged trouble or need; as, the distress of a shipwrecked crew, or of a destitute family. Ache is lingering pain, more or less severe; pang, a pain short, sharp, intense, and perhaps repeated. We speak of the pangs of hunger or of remorse. Throe is a violent and thrilling pain. Paroxysm applies to an alternately recurring and receding pain, which comes as it were in waves; the paroxysm is the rising of the wave. Torment and torture are intense and terrible sufferings. Agony and anguish express the utmost pain or suffering of body or mind. Agony of body is that with which the system struggles; anguish that by which it is crushed.

   Synonyms:
   ache, agony, anguish, distress, pain, pang, paroxysm, suffering, throe, torture, twinge, wo(e)

   Antonyms:
   comfort, delight, ease, enjoyment, peace, rapture, relief, solace

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1. torment

   Synonyms:
   tease, worry, persecute, rack, plague, tantalize, pain, distress, afflict, torture, harass, importune

   Antonyms:
   soothe, gratify, please, entertain, delight, amuse

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1. torture, tormentnoun

   unbearable physical pain

   Synonyms:
   badgering, harassment, worrying, overrefinement, torturing, agony, torture, anguish, bedevilment, curse, twisting, distortion, straining

2. anguish, torment, torturenoun

   extreme mental distress

   Synonyms:
   badgering, distortion, worrying, overrefinement, torturing, straining, harassment, torture, anguish, bedevilment, twisting, agony, curse

3. agony, torment, torturenoun

   intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

   "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"

   Synonyms:
   badgering, distortion, worrying, overrefinement, torturing, straining, harassment, excruciation, torture, anguish, bedevilment, suffering, twisting, agony, curse

4. harassment, tormentnoun

   a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented

   "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors"

   Synonyms:
   badgering, worrying, molestation, harassment, torture, anguish, bedevilment, agony, curse

5. curse, tormentnoun

   a severe affliction

   Synonyms:
   bedevilment, whammy, scourge, expletive, condemnation, swearing, curse word, jinx, oath, badgering, worrying, curse, execration, cuss, harassment, agony, torture, swearword, nemesis, anguish, bane, hex

6. badgering, worrying, torment, bedevilmentverb

   the act of harassing someone

   Synonyms:
   badgering, worrying, anguish, harassment, torture, bedevilment, agony, curse

7. torment, torture, excruciate, rackverb

   torment emotionally or mentally

   Synonyms:
   squeeze, gouge, bedevil, wring, extort, rack, rag, single-foot, excruciate, torture, crucify, scud, dun, frustrate

8. torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrateverb

   treat cruelly

   "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"

   Synonyms:
   bawl out, chide, confound, befuddle, cross, lambast, foil, fox, savage, nark, tease, frustrate, bedevil, spoil, take to task, bother, blast, rile, rack, gravel, excruciate, trounce, bilk, rally, dun, get to, berate, thwart, torture, crucify, chew out, pillory, baffle, nettle, throw, scotch, chafe, ride, get at, subdue, lecture, irritate, have words, reproof, razz, call down, tantalise, mortify, annoy, tantalize, reprimand, cod, scold, taunt, rebuke, rag, jaw, discombobulate, vex, lambaste, chew up, dress down, confuse, call on the carpet, remonstrate, bait, twit, devil, fuddle

9. torture, excruciate, tormentverb

   subject to torture

   "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"

   Synonyms:
   bedevil, rack, rag, excruciate, torture, crucify, dun, frustrate

Matched Categories

1. • Affliction
   • Anguish
   • Injure
   • Pain
   • Suffering

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1. tormentnoun

   Synonyms:
   ANGUISH, agony, torture, rack, pang, extreme pain, excruciating pain, acute distress

2. tormentverb

   Synonyms:
   torture, distress, agonize, rack, excruciate, pain extremely, put to the rack, put to torture

3. tormentverb

   Synonyms:
   tease, vex, plague, harass, worry, harry, badger, fret, irritate, nettle, provoke, tantalize, trouble, annoy

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1. tormentnoun

   Synonyms:
   pain, anguish, distress, torture, bane, infliction, scourge, thorn

2. tormentverb

   Synonyms:
   persecute, hector, tease, tantalize, harry, torture, grill, rack, distress

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1. List of paraphrases for "torment":

   torments, haunt, ordeal

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1. Steve Spurrier:

   It's a simple truth that the greater your accomplishments -- your victories -- the greater opposition, torment, and discouragement your enemies will throw in your path. Expect it and don't become a victim of it, so I'm telling our fans expect those people that are our enemies to talk bad about us.

2. Clive Staples Lewis:

   Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

3. The SITE intelligence group:

   We have felt joy for what befell the people of France in terms of torment, as their blood was spilled inside their country.

4. Frank H. Crane:

   You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

5. Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood:

   It just boggles my mind you would torment and beat and place a kid in the oven and yet you walk around on two feet, animals don’t treat their kids the way this guy treated this little girl.