torment
noun
• severe physical or mental suffering.
• "their deaths have left both families in torment"
Similar:
agony,
suffering,
torture,
pain,
anguish,
misery,
distress,
affliction,
trauma,
wretchedness,
woe,
hell,
purgatory,
excruciation,
torment
verb
• cause to experience severe mental or physical suffering.
• "he was tormented by jealousy"
Similar:
torture,
afflict,
harrow,
plague,
distress,
agonize,
cause agony to,
cause suffering to,
cause pain to,
inflict anguish on,
excruciate,
crucify,
rack,
pain,
mortify,
worry,
trouble,
abuse,
maltreat,
mistreat,
molest,
Origin:
Middle English (as both noun and verb referring to the infliction or suffering of torture): Old French torment (noun), tormenter (verb), from Latin tormentum ‘instrument of torture’, from torquere ‘to twist’.
