n.
severe physical or mental suffering.
▸a cause of torment.
v.
- subject to torment.
- annoy or tease unkindly.
Derivative
- tormented adj.
- tormentedly adv.
- tormenting adj.
- tormentingly adv.
- tormentor n.
Etymology
ME: from OFr. torment (n.), tormenter (v.), from L. tormentum ‘instrument of torture’, from torquere ‘to twist’.