Torment

Definition: Torment

Torment

Noun

1. Unbearable physical pain.

2. Extreme mental distress.

3. Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned".

4. A feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors".

5. A severe affliction.

6. The act of harassing someone.

Verb

1. Torment emotionally or mentally.

2. Annoy constantly.

3. Subject to torture.

Date "torment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Domain	Definition
Bible	Torment Gr. basanos (Matt. 4:24), the "touch-stone" of justice; hence inquisition by torture, and then any disease which racks and tortures the limbs. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Torment

Synonyms: agony (n), anguish (n), badgering (n), bedevilment (n), curse (n), harassment (n), torture (n), worrying (n), bedevil (v), crucify (v), dun (v), excruciate (v), frustrate (v), rack (v), rag (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Desire	Edge of appetite, edge of hunger; torment of Tantalus; sweet tooth, lickerish tooth; itching palm; longing eye, wistful eye, sheep's eye.
Expectation	Suspense, waiting, abeyance; curiosity; anxious expectation, ardent expectation, eager expectation, breathless expectation, sanguine expectation; torment of Tantalus.
Hell	Noun: hell, bottomless pit, place of torment; habitation of fallen angels; Pandemonium, Abaddon, Domdaniel; jahannan, sheol.
	Hell fire; everlasting fire, everlasting torment, eternal damnation; lake of fire and brimstone; fire that is never quenched; worm that never dies.
Pain	Wring, harrow, torment, torture; bullyrag; put to the rack, put to the question; break on the wheel, rack, scarify; cruciate, crucify; convulse, agonize; barb the dart; plant a dagger in the breast, plant a thorn in one's side.
	Pang, anguish, agony; torture, torment; purgatory; (hell).
Physical Pain	Give pain, inflict pain; lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite, gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring, convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize; crucify; cruciate, excruciate; break on the wheel, put to the rack; flog. (punish); grate on the ear. (harsh sound).
	Anguish, agony; torment, torture; rack; cruciation, crucifixion; martyrdom, toad under a harrow, vivisection.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Torment

English words defined with "torment": Cruciation ♦ Drecche ♦ Excruciable, excruciate ♦ Forhall, Forpine ♦ purgatory ♦ rack ♦ To pain one's self, To put to the rack, To rack one's brains, Tormentful, tormenting, Tormentise, Tormentry, Tortion, torture. (references)

Specialty definitions using "torment": Avoir ♦ Damocles' Sword ♦ FRYING ♦ Guthlac. (references)

Etymologies containing "torment": Excarnificate ♦ Tormentful, Tormentil, Tormentise, Tormentry. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Brown-skinned girls who inflame your senses with their play, cool yellow-haired women who entice and escape you, gentle ones who serve you, slender ones who torment you, the mothers who bore and suckled you; all women whom God created out of the teeming fullness of the earth, are yours in the love of one woman. (Rembrandt; writing credit: Carl Zuckmayer; June Head) Here's to Leo for saving me from eternal torment. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) His questions lead to torment, for he is unable to accept, as the insects do, that life's only purpose is life itself. (The Hellstrom Chronicle; writing credit: David Seltzer) You'll die in torment if you die with innocent blood on your soul. (Dracula; writing credit: John L. Balderston; Hamilton Deane)
Movie/TV Titles	The Black Torment (1964) Torment (1950) The Torment (1916) Tender Torment (1999) Tarts in Torment (1993)
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Domain	Title
Books	Chainer's Torment (Magic: The Gathering--Odyssey Cycle, Book II) (reference) Dark Torment (reference) Devil at My Heels: A WW II Hero's Epic Saga of Torment, Survival, and Forgiveness (reference) Divine Torment (Black Lace) (reference) Savage Torment (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Torment (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Alive in Torment (reference) In Torment in Hell [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Planescape: Torment (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Cape Torment, St. Lawrence River. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Arthur Schopenhauer	Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
E. M. Cioran	Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
Gaius Valerius Catullus	I hate and I love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it and I am in torment.
John Donne	Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
Marquis De Sade	I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
Napoleon Bonaparte	The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Thomas Jefferson	Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Every torment which they had experienced was returned by them in intoxication.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	To bear even the sting of an insect for all eternity would be a dreadful torment.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		This pain, called postherpetic neuralgia, is among the most devastating known to mankind � the kind of pain that leads to insomnia, weight loss, depression, and that total preoccupation with unrelenting torment that characterizes the chronic pain sufferer. (references)
Human Rights	Argentina	In a similar case reported on July 31, prisoners in the new General Alvear prison in Buenos Aires province filed a complaint alleging physical and psychological torment. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	FRYING-:PAN:, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith. The following lines (said to be from the pen of his Grace Bishop Potter) seem to imply that the usefulness of this utensil is not limited to this world; but as the consequences of its employment in this life reach over into the life to come, so also itself may be found on the other side, rewarding its devotees: Old Nick was summoned to the skies. Said Peter: "Your intentions Are good, but you lack enterprise Concerning new inventions. "Now, broiling in an ancient plan Of torment, but I hear it Reported that the frying-pan Sears best the wicked spirit. "Go get one -- fill it up with fat -- Fry sinners brown and good in't." "I know a trick worth two o' that," Said Nick -- "I'll cook their food in't."
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"Torment" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.37% of the time. "Torment" is used about 319 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	78.37%	250	18,796
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	20.69%	66	41,290
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.94%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	319	N/A

Expressions using "torment": torment of Tantalus ♦ torment oneself. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "torment": torment-wise.
	Ending with "torment": self-torment.
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Language		Translations for "torment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		torturë (excruciation, heat, rack, torture), vuajtje (affliction, agony, anguish, cross, distress, dolor, dolour, gyp, hardship, martyrdom, misery, pain, rack, suffering, tribulation), siklet (anxiety, discomfort, embarrassment, lather), mundoj (agonize, beat, crucify, drive, harass, Harrow, obsess, rack, rankle, sweat, tantalize, torture, trouble, weigh down, wrack), mundim (cross, effort, excruciation, hardship, intension, martyrdom, pain, rack, sweat, torture, trouble). (various references)

Arabic		‏ناوش (harry, scrimmage, skirmish), ‏تعذيب (grilling, third degree, torture, work), ‏تعذب (agonize, be tormented, curse, freshen up, tear along, torture), ‏عذاب (agony, anguish, misery, ordeal, scourge, torture), ‏عذب (agonize, agreeable, bedevil, benign, charming, chasten, crucify, devil, dulcet, freshen, grilled, harrow, harry, hearty, leisurely, liquid, murder, palmy, persecute, pillory, plague, quiet, rack, rack one's brains, scourge, silken, silky, sleek, smite, smooth, smooth spoken, soft, suave, sweet, sympathetic, tantalize, tease, tender, torture, wrench, wring), ‏عاش في عذاب, ‏ضايق (aggrieve, annoy, bully, distress, disturb, dog, fret, get in the way, gnaw, grate, grill, harass, harrow, harry, incommode, inconvenience, irk, jar, jolt, molest, nag, persecute, pester, pick, rag, rattle, saddle), ‏أقلق (agitate, beset, concern, disconcert, disquiet, distress, disturb, ferret, fret, fuss, hop, molest, obsess, peck, perturb, rile, shake up, spook, trouble, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset, worry), ‏أزعج (ail, annoy, beset, bother, burn, discompose, disquiet, disrupt, distress, disturb, get in the way, get on smb.'s nerves, gig, gnaw, grate, hamper, harass, importune, incommode, inconvenience, infest, intrude, irk, irritate, jolt, molest, nag, niggle, obsess, offend, pain, peck, peeve, perturb, pester, plague, possess, prickle, put out, rasp, rattle, ruffle, saddle, trouble, upset, vex), ‏شوه (assassinate, blemish, color, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, falsify, garble, harm, maim, mangle, mar, misrepresent, mutilate, pervert, queer, skew, slant, slur, spoil, tinker, torture, twist, warp, wrench). (various references)

Bulgarian		мъча (agonize, bedevil, excruciate, gnaw, martyrize, prick, rankle, torture, victimize, wring), мъка (ado, affliction, agony, desolation, excruciation, grief, heartache, laceration, misery, moil, pain, suffering, toil, torture), причина на мъка, изтезавам (rack, torture, wring), изтезание (torture), досаждам (annoy, chagrin, intrude, persecute, pester, tease, vex, weary). (various references)

Chinese		折磨 (persecute). (various references)

Czech		trýzeò (anguish, tribulation), trápit (afflict, agonize, ail, bait, beset, bother, discommode, disgruntle, grieve, nag, pain, pester, plague, pother, rack, tantalize, torture, trouble, vex, worry), trápení (care, harassment, misery, plague, suffering, torture, trouble, vexation, worry), muèit (excruciate, martyr, tantalize, torture), muèení (excruciation, torture). (various references)

Dutch		martelen (abuse, agonize, torture), kwellen (abuse, agonize, grind, haunt, pulverize), koeioneren (abuse, agonize). (various references)

Esperanto		turmento, turmenti (abuse). (various references)

Faeroese		plága (calamity, scourge), pínsla, neyð (misery). (various references)

Farsi		زحمت (Difficulty, Discomfort, Inconvenience, Labor, Pain, Trouble, Tug), زجردادن (Torture), زجر (Torture), عذاب دادن (Agonize, Grill, Lacerate, Lug, Put, Rack, Rankle, Torture), عذاب (Torture, Tribulation), ازار (Annoyance, Disservice, Hindrance, Hurt, Nuisance, Trade, Train, Trouble), شکنجه (Rack, Torture). (various references)

Finnish		kiduttaa (abuse, agonize, torture). (various references)

French		tourmenter, torture (torture, tortures). (various references)

Frisian		pleach (calamity, scourge). (various references)

German		Qual (ache, agony, anguish, distress, dolor, excruciation, ordeal, pain, pang, pinch, torture, vexation), quälen (abuse, agonize, bait, gnaw, haunt, niggle, pester, pinch, plague, punish, rack, smite, smitten, tantalization, tantalize, tease, to agonize, to toil, toil, torture, vex, vexation), peinigen (abuse, agonize, tantalize, to torment, torture), martern (abuse, agonize, martyr, torture), Marter (ordeal, torture). (various references)

Greek		βάσανοσ (ordeal, torture), βάσανο (affliction, pest, tribulation), βασανιστήριο (rack, torture), βασανίζω (afflict, agonize, bait, bedevil, excruciate, flay, harass, obsess, pester, plague, prey on, rack, scourge, torture, worry). (various references)

Hebrew		ליסר (afflict, chasten, scourge, smite), ל�"כאיב (ail, hurt, trouble), ל�"ציק (aggravate, aggrieve, ail, annoy, harass, irk, molest, nag, persecute, pester, shove around, tease, vex), כאב (ache, grief, hurt, malady, pain, soreness, suffering, torture, wrench). (various references)

Hungarian		kín (anguish, distress, misery, pain, pang, passion). (various references)

Indonesian		sikatan (abuse, sweep, torture), menyengsarakan, mengazab (harass, persecute), azab (punishment). (various references)

Italian		tortura (agony, torture), tormento (agony, dolor, excruciation, heartache, plague, torture, tribulation, trouble), tormentare (afflict, agonise, agonize, bait, be tormented, bedevil, excruciate, harass, Harry, nag, pester, pinch, plague, prey, sting, tantalise, tantalize, worry), supplizio (agony, torture), suppliziare, strazio (torture), straziare (mangle, murder, torture), ossessionare (bother, harass, haunt, obsess, trouble), molestare (annoy, bother, discommode, harass, harrass, heckle, molest, tease, vex, worry), martoriare (torture), martirio (agony, martyrdom, torture), limare (file, polish, rasp), lacerazione (laceration, suffering, tearing), assillare (harass, pester). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		苛める (to chastise, to persecute, to tease, to torment), 苛む (to harass, to torment, to torture), 苦しめる (to harass, to inflict pain, to torment), 悩ます (to afflict, to harass, to molest, to torment), 切り苛む (to cut to pieces, to torment). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		なやます (to afflict, to harass, to molest, to torment), きりさいなむ (to cut to pieces, to torment), くるしめる (to harass, to inflict pain, to torment), さいなむ (to harass, to torment, to torture), いじめる (to chastise, to persecute, to tease, to torment). (various references)

Manx		torchaghey (excruciate, tantalization, tantalize; tormenting, torture, torturing), pianjys, angaaish (agony, anguish). (various references)

Pig Latin		ormenttay

Polish		zamęczać. (various references)

Portuguese		torturar (abuse, agonize, gnaw, harry, martyr, martyrize, rack, torture, wring), tortura (hades, hell, rack, torture), tormento (bale, martyrdom, misery, pang, smart, torture), suplício (rack, torture), sofrimento (ache, affliction, agony, endurance, gall, hardship, hurt, ill feeling, infliction, pain, passion, soreness, sorrow, sufferance, suffering, teen, teener, trial, tribulation, trouble), fazer sofrer (harry, hurt, inflict, pain, rack, wring), consumir (absorb, consume, devour, eat up, expend, gnaw, pass, run out of, spend, swallow, use up, waste, wear), atormentar (abuse, afflict, agonize, badger, bait, devil, discomfort, fret, gall, gnaw, grill, harrow, harry, lacerate, lay hold, martyr, mortify, obsess, oppress, pain, persecute, pester, pother, prey, rack, scarify, tantalize, torture), arreliar (bully, bullyrag, chaff, corkscrew, fret, kid, needle, persecute, rag, ruffle, tease, twit), angústia (agony, anguish, distress, fear, misery, pang, torture, woe), afligir (afflict, aggrieve, ail, annoy, chagrin, distress, fret, gall, grieve, lacerate, oppress, pain, plague, press, sadden, vex, weigh, worry), aborrecer (annoy, badger, blister, bore, bother, bug, burst with anger, disgust, displease, displeasure, distaste, fash, feeze, hate, hump, importune, irk, leech, loathe, molest, nag, nettle, offend, pester, pique, plague, put about, spite, tire, trouble, vex). (various references)

Romanian		torturã (excruciation, inquisition, question, torture), mânca (bite, browse, consume, dine off, dine on, eat, finish, gnaw, grub, have, Lodge, meal, sting, take), apãsa (bear, bear on, depress, emphasize, jam, oppress, press, push, push down, squeeze, stress, torture), canon (Canon, catch, dogma, tenet, torture), canoni (tire, toil, torture, weary), caznã (agony, efforts, labor, labour, moil, question, rack, torture), chin (agony, anguish, gnawing, hurt, laceration, moil, ordeal, pain, pang, rack, torture, trouble, worriment), chinui (agonize, bait, bore, drudge, fester, grill, harass, Harrow, Harry, lacerate, martyr, martyrize, mortify, overdrive, persecute, pinch, plague, prey, prick, rack, slave, tantalize, torture, trouble, try, worry, wring), agonie (agony, anguish, mortal agony, throes, torture), frãmânta (agitate, beat, brake, bustle, churn, debate, fret, fuss, knead, puddle, pug, ride, stamp, stir, temper, torture, worry), martiriza (martyr, martyrize), munci (do, endeavor, endeavour, labor, labour, rack, suffer, till, toil, torture, work), obseda (haunt, obsess), omorî (annihilate, assassinate, bring down, bump, butcher, croak, destroy, dispatch, do for, do in, execute, exhaust, finish, kill, knock off, make an end of, make away with, murder, put smb. on the spot, put to death, send to glory, shift, slaughter, slay, spoil, torture), seca (drain, dry, empty, exhaust, peter out, run dry, torture), supliciu (agony, torture), fierbe (boil, bubble over, cook, effervesce, ferment, fizz, heat, poach, pot, rage, resound, roar, seethe, simmer, torture). (various references)

Russian		мучение (anguish, misery, moil), мука (anguish, excruciation, flour, martyrdom, meal, throe), источник мучений, измучить (jade, rack up). (various references)

Scottish		pian (ache, pain), léir (altogether, distress, entirely, pain, perception, power of seeing or being seen : is, sight, wholly), dòruinn (anguish, pain), cr� lad, cr� dh (anguish, harass, pain, vex), claoidh (annoy, oppress, vex). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		razdirati (harrow), patnja (agony, misery, pain, suffering, travail), namučiti (bedevil, suffer), muka (anguish, annoyance, limbo, nausea, need, qualm, queasiness), mučiti (agonize, ail, beleaguer, excruciate, gnaw, harass, mortify, nettle, persecute, plague, rack, rankle, tantalize, torture), gristi (bite, corrode, rankle), agonija (agony, death-struggle, throe, travail). (various references)

Spanish		tormento (anguish, dolor, excruciation, torture). (various references)

Swedish		pina (ache, agonize, agony, crucify, excruciate, excruciation, pain, pinch, tantalise, tantalize, torture), kval (agony, anguish, pain, pang, pangs, qualifying match, throes, torture). (various references)

Turkish		işkence etmek (agonize, crucify, excruciate, grill, martyr, persecute, put to the torture, rack, torture), işkence (corporal punishment, cruelty, gaff, grueling, gruelling, persecution, torture), eziyet etmek (afflict, agonize, dragoon, excruciate, grind down, grind out, Harry, lead smb. a dance, maltreat, oppress, pain, persecute, rack, torture, tyrannize, tyrannize over, wrong), eziyet (gnawing, grind, grinding work, infliction, maltreatment, oppression, pain, persecution, punishment, torture, vexation), cefa (calvary, cruelty, hardship, long-suffering, rigor, rigour, suffering), azap (ache, gaff, pain, sting, torture), acı çektirmek (agonize, persecute). (various references)

Turkmen		horluk (pain, suffering), helдklemek (vex), helдkзilik (catastrophe, suffering), e, зekelemek (pester, torture), azap (torture). (various references)

Ukrainian		страждання (affliction, agony, bale, crucifixion, gyp, heartache, infliction, misery, pain, pathos, sufferance, suffering, travail, tribulation), катувати (butcher, martyrize, torture), катування (torture), мучити (agonize, bedevil, bully, chivvy, crucify, devour, drag, excruciate, martyrize, pain, pinch, plague, torture, tribulate, trouble, victimize, whip), докучати. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự giằn vặt (pinch), sự gi� y vò, sự day dứt (gnawing, sting, stung), sự đau khổ (suffering), nỗi thống khổ (anguish, bale, cross, torture). (various references)

Welsh		poenydio (fret, torture, vex), poeni (ache, ail, annoy, badger, grieve, pain, worry), poenedigaeth, poen (ache, agony, pain), plagio (plague, tease), artaith (agony, pang, torture). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adflictio, adflictione, adflictionem, adflictionemque, adflictiones, adflictionibus, adflictionis, cruciabit, cruciabitur, cruciabuntur, cruciamenta, cruciamentis, cruciamento, cruciamentum, cruciandos, cruciaretur, cruciasti, cruciatu, cruciatur, cruciatus, cruciaverunt, crucio, crucior, facem, faces, facibus, facis, fatigo, fax, lacerabis, lacerabunt, lacerabuntur, lacerandum, lacerans, lacerantes, lacerare, lacerata, laceratum, laceratus, laceraverunt, laceret, lacero, macero, multo, stimulator, stimulatus, stimulo, supplicium, tormenta, tormento, tormentum, torquens, torquent, torquentes, torqueo, torquere, torqueri, torques, torserat, torta, tortam, tortamque, tortas, tortiones, tortis, torto, tortura, torturi. (various references)
Late Latin	300-700	torture. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Luke Chapter 16, Verse 28
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Ecw gar pente adelfouV opwV diamarturhtai autoiV ina mh kai autoi elqwsin eiV ton topon touton thV basanou
Latin	405	Vulgate	Habeo enim quinque fratres ut testetur illis ne et ipsi veniant in locum hunc tormentorum
Old English	990	West Saxon	Ic hæbbe fif gebroðru þæt he cyðe him þæt hig ne cumon on þissa tintrega stowe;
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	For Y haue fyue britheren, that he witnesse to hem, lest also thei come in to this place of turmentis.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	For I have fyve brethren: for to warne the left they also come into this place of tourmet.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	For I have five brethren; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	For I have five brothers; and let him give them an account of these things, so that they may not come to this place of pain.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Luke Chapter 16, Verse 28
Cebuano	kay aduna akoy lima ka mga igsoong lalaki, aron iyang pasidan-an sila, basi usab unyag mahianhi sila niining dapita sa kasakit.`
Croatian	Imam petero braæe pa neka im posvjedoèi da i oni ne doðu u ovo mjesto muka.'
Danish	thi jeg har fem Brødre for at han kan vidne for dem, for at ikke også de skulle komme i dette Pinested.
Dutch	Want ik heb vijf broeders; dat hij hun dit betuige, opdat ook zij niet komen in deze plaats der pijniging.
Finnish	- sillä minulla on viisi veljeä - todistamaan heille, etteivät hekin joutuisi tähän vaivan paikkaan`.
French	C`est pour qu`il leur atteste ces choses, afin qu`ils ne viennent pas aussi dans ce lieu de tourments.
German	denn ich habe noch fünf Brüder, daß er ihnen bezeuge, auf daß sie nicht auch kommen an diesen Ort der Qual.
Haitian Creole	Mwen gen senk frè. Mwen ta vle li al di yo jan bagay la ye pou yo pa vin isit nan touman sa a.
Hungarian	Mert van öt testvérem; hogy bizonyságot tegyen nékik, hogy õk is ide, e gyötrelemnek helyére ne jussanak.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Ada lima saudara saya di situ. Suruhlah Lazarus memperingatkan mereka, supaya jangan sampai mereka pun jatuh ke tempat siksaan ini.'
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	karena hamba ada lagi lima saudara laki-laki; kiranya ia menyatakan kepada mereka itu keadaan hamba, supaya jangan mereka itu juga termasuk ke tempat sengsara ini.
Italian	perché ho cinque fratelli. Li ammonisca, perché non vengano anch'essi in questo luogo di tormento.
Maori	Tokorima hoki oku teina; kia korero ai ia ki a ratou, kei haere mai hoki ratou ki tenei wahi mamae.
Norwegian	- for jeg har fem brødre - forat han kan vidne for dem, så ikke også de skal komme til dette pinens sted.
Portuguese	porque tenho cinco irmãos; para que lhes dê testemunho, a fim de que não venham eles também para este lugar de tormento.
Rumanian	cqci am cinci frayi, wi sq le adevereascq aceste lucruri, ca sq nu vinq wi ei kn acest loc de chin.`
Russian	Й�'П Х НЕОС � СФШ �'ТБФШЕЧ; � ХУФШ ПО ЪБУЧЙ�"ЕФЕМШУФЧХЕФ ЙН, ЮФП�'Щ Й ПОЙ ОЕ � ТЙЫМЙ Ч ЬФП НЕУФП НХЮЕОЙС.
Shuar	Nuisha winia yatsur senku matsatainiawai. Niisha ju Wáitsatniunam Tácharat tusa Ujákartí, Tájame" timiai.'
Swahili	maana ninao ndugu watano, ili awaonye wasije wakaja huku kwenye mateso.`
Swedish	där jag har fem bröder, och låter honom varna dem, så att icke också de komma till detta pinorum.'
Uma	Apa' ria-ra-pidi lima ompi' -ku. Hubui-i Lazarus mpopo'ingai' -ra bona neo' -ra mpai' tumai hi po'ohaa' pontodohakaa toi.'
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "torment": tormented, tormenter, tormenters, tormentil, tormentils, tormenting, tormentor, tormentors, torments. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Torment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: corment, dorment, forment, Fourment, morment, stormant, Stormonth, tarent, topmen, Torbett, tormae, Tormain, torme, tormene, tormennt, tormenta, tormeny, tornment, torvean, Toumert, tourent, tourment, tournant, Trombetta, turnen. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "torment" (pronounced tô"rme'nt or tôrme"nt)
3	-e' n t	advent, disorient, Orient, president.
4	-m e" n t	augment, cement, Dement, ferment, lament, meant.
3	-e" n t	accent, ascent, assent, bent, Brent, cent, circumvent, consent, Dent, descent, discontent, dissent, event, extent, gent, indent, intent, invent, Kent, lent, malcontent, misrepresent, misspent, nonevent, occident, outspent, overspent, pent, percent, prevent, reinvent, relent, rent, repent, represent, resent, scent, sent, spent, tent, underwent, unspent, vent, went.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-m-n-o-r-t-t"
	-1 letter: mentor, rotten, torten.
	-2 letters: enorm, metro, monte, motet, motte, noter, otter, rotte, tenor, toner, torte, totem, toter, trone.
	-3 letters: meno, more, morn, mort, mote, mott, nett, nome, norm, note, omen, omer, rent, rote, tent, term, tern, tome, tone, tore, torn, tort, tote, tret, trot.
	-4 letters: eon, ern, men, met, mon, mor, mot, net, nom.
	Words containing the letters "e-m-n-o-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: torments.
	+2 letters: intermont, sternmost, tonometer, tonometry, tormented, tormenter, tormentil, tormentor.
	+3 letters: antemortem, assortment, attornment, deportment, marionette, monetarist, nethermost, portamenti, portamento, sermonette, stenotherm, terminator, tonometers, tormenters, tormentils, tormenting, tormentors, tournament, tramontane.
	+4 letters: actinometer, actinometry, assortments, attornments, commentator, compartment, comportment, contretemps, controlment, countermyth, demonstrate, deportments, disportment, easternmost, enterostomy, impetration, importunate, interatomic, intromitted, intromitter, marionettes, metrication, monetarists, permutation, portamentos, portmanteau, protonemata, remonstrant, remonstrate, sermonettes, stenotherms, tensiometer, tensiometry, termination, terminators, tonometries, tournaments, tramontanes, treponemata, trimetrogon, westernmost.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 72 6D 65 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

- --- .-. -- . -. -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01110010 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#114 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 0072 006D 0065 006E 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
planescape torment	223	planescape torment cheat code	5
torment	210	planescape torment hint	5
planescape torment walk through	61	plane torment	4
torment walk through	47	hellscript torment	4
planescape torment cheat	35	sexual torment	4
torment cheat	33	planescape strategy through torment walk	4
planescape torment trainer	23	downloads torment	3
planescape torment patch	19	tickle torment	3
planescape torment editor	15	breast torment	3
realm torment	13	granny torment	3
torment vibrator	8	planescape torment code	3
editor torment	8	editor game planescape save torment	3
patch torment	8	erotic torment	3
tit torment	7	tickling torment	3
cheat code torment	7	character editor torment	3
torment trainer	7	planetscape torment	2
character editor planescape torment	6	hell torment	2
cheerleader torment	6	man spider torment	2
planescape torment download	6	planescape torment review	2
planescape torment guide	5	script torment	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Torment

Definition: Torment

Torment

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Specialty Definition: Torment

Synonyms: Torment

Synonyms within Context: Torment

Desire

Expectation

Hell

Pain

Physical Pain

Crosswords: Torment

Modern Usage: Torment

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Familiar Quotations: Torment

Arthur Schopenhauer

E. M. Cioran

Gaius Valerius Catullus

John Donne

Marquis De Sade

Napoleon Bonaparte

Thomas Jefferson

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Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

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Devil's Dictionary

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Expression: Torment

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Torment

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