to torment

Examples

• All

• The relationship between the poet and his Venus noire remained tormented throughout the 1850s.

  Academic text (1997)

• Mistaken ideas about good and evil also torment us with the most cruel pain of mind.

  Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

• Then it took other forms to torment her.

  Never Let Go (2024)

• And just to torment her, that would mean alcohol.

• A thing my husband invented to torment me.

  Crimes of the Future (2022)

• OK, I won't torment you with any more of it now.

  Stanford

• There was a week in the hospital where they tormented her with tests.

  Fiction book (1992)

• So what do you do when someone is tormenting you instead of lifting you up?

• The trek was arduous and the torrential downpour continued to torment the troops.

• The memories of his childhood mistakes continue to torment him every day.

Synonyms

T

to torture

vsto torment

• Offensive

582 5.7

To cause someone to feel severe physical or emotional pain, often on purpose

is about causing severe suffering not necessarily as punishment

I

to inflict

vsto torment

245 6.2

Make someone feel pain or suffer harm

means causing severe suffering specifically not just any unpleasant act

P

to plague

vsto torment

121 5.6

To cause constant trouble and suffering to people and things

tends to mean causing intense suffering rather than ongoing nuisance

A

to afflict

vsto torment

71 6.0

Cause pain or trouble to people, animals and places

involves causing severe suffering rather than any mild harm

R

to rack

vsto torment

43 7.5

To cause great physical or mental pain

focuses on causing severe distress often with intense pressure

D

to distress

vsto torment

32 4.1

Cause someone to feel pain, worry or serious problems

refers to causing severe suffering rather than milder upset

C

to crucify

vsto torment

• NSFW

32 8.0

To criticize someone or something very harshly, often in public

means causing deep suffering not limited to public harsh criticism

E

to excruciate

vsto torment

8 9.9

To cause someone very great physical or mental pain

is general causing severe suffering without stressing extremity

A

to anguish

vsto torment

4 7.3

To cause someone to feel very strong pain or worry

is the general act of causing severe pain or distress

H

to harrow

vsto torment

1 7.7

To cause someone deep emotional pain and worry

is about severe suffering more broadly including physical harm

B

to bedevil

vsto torment

1 8.2

Treat someone cruelly by hurting or frightening them again and again

is about causing severe suffering rather than repeated spite

Antonyms

C

to comfort

172 1.0

To make someone feel less upset or in pain

S

to soothe

63 3.4

To make someone feel calmer or reduce their pain

Compounds

S

self-torment

8.6

To make yourself feel sad or guilty on purpose by replaying past events

How Painful

torture

• Offensive

137 7.2

to torment

• NSFW

107 7.2

to distress

32 4.1

to harass

302 4.0

to upset

362 1.0

to bother

∞ 1.0

to annoy

246 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology