Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - torment
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Torment
torment
~1 n 1 severe mental or physical suffering, often lasting a long time (in torment) (She lay awake all night in torment.) 2 someone or something that makes you suffer ~2 v 1 to make someone suffer a lot, especially so that they feel guilty or very unhappy (Seth was tormented by feelings of guilt. | tormented by hunger) 2 to deliberately treat someone cruelly by annoying them or hurting them (The older boys would torment him whenever they had the chance.) - tormentor n
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(tormented) 1. Torment is extreme suffering, usually mental suffering. The torment of having her baby kidnapped is written all over her face. = anguish N-UNCOUNT 2. A torment is something that causes extreme suffering, usually mental suffering. Sooner or later most writers end up making books about the torments of being a writer... N-COUNT 3. If something torments you, it causes you extreme mental suffering. At times the memories returned to torment her... = torture VERB: V n 4. If you torment a person or animal, you annoy them in a playful, rather cruel way for your own amusement. My older brother and sister used to torment me by singing it to me. VERB: V n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French turment, ~, from Latin ~um torture; akin to torquere to twist — more at torture Date: 14th century 1. the infliction of torture (as by rack or wheel) 2. extreme pain or anguish of body or mind ; agony 3. a source of vexation or pain II. transitive verb Date: 14th century 1. to cause severe usually persistent or recurrent distress of body or mind to cattle ~ed by flies 2. distort, twist Synonyms: see afflict ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 severe physical or mental suffering (was in torment). 2 a cause of this. 3 archaic a torture. b an instrument of torture. --v.tr. 1 subject to torment (tormented with worry). 2 tease or worry excessively (enjoyed tormenting the teacher). Derivatives tormentedly adv. tormentingly adv. tormentor n. Etymology: ME f. OF torment, tormenter f. L tormentum missile-engine f. torquere to twist ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. мучение to be in torment —- мучиться, страдать to suffer torment from an aching tooth —- мучиться от зубной боли 2. муки; пытки everlasting torment —- вечные муки the torments of jealousy —- муки ревности the torment of Tantalus —- танталовы муки 3. источник, причина мучений the burn was a torment —- ожог причинял мучительную боль the torment of one's life —- что-л. постоянно раздражающее (отравляющее жизнь) the child is a positive torment —- этот ребенок - чистое наказание 4. мучить, причинять боль страдания to be tormented by toothache —- страдать от зубной боли to be tormented with hunger —- испытывать муки голода to be tormented with remorse —- мучиться угрызениями совести headaches tormented him —- его мучили (донимали) головные боли it tormented him to think about it —- ему было (мучительно) больно думать об этом, думать об этом было для него мукой 5. мучить, издеваться the bullies tormented smaller boys —- хулиганы жестоко издевались над подростками 6. досаждать, раздражать; изводить, дразнить to torment a person with perpetual questions —- досаждать кому-л. бесконечными вопросами we were tormented by flies —- от мух не было спасения 7. редк. пытать; терзать 8. уст. выводить из состояния равновесия; нарушать; разрушать; возмущать the water is tormented as if a hurricane had struck it —- море волнуется, как будто над ним прошел ураган 9. искажать,...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) мучение, мука; to suffer torments - испытывать муки 2) источник мучений Syn: see misery 2. v. 1) мучить; причинять боль 2) досаждать, изводить, раздражать ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 13c., from O.Fr. tourment, from L. tormentum "twisted sling, rack," related to torquere "to twist." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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