Definitions of torment

  1.   subject to torture
  3.   unbearable physical pain
  4.   That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.
  5.   a severe affliction
  7.   To torture; afflict; annoy greatly.
  8.   To put into great agitation.
  9.   Extreme pain; torture; great annoyance; that which causes torment.
  10.   Tormentor.
  12.   torment emotionally or mentally
  14.   Termentor.
  17.   To torture.
  18.   treat cruelly; " The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
  19.   Torture: anguish: that which causes pain.
  20.   extreme mental distress
  23.   An engine for casting stones.
  25.   To pain; to distress; to afflict.
  26.   Suffering, anguish; colic, ileus, tormina.
  29.   Intense pain or a person or thing that cause it; torture; anguish; distress.

Quotes of torment

  1. The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment – James A. Baldwin
  2. The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment – Djuna Barnes
  3. What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art. – Max Beckmann
  4. The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. – Napoleon Bonaparte
  5. I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? – David Byrne
  6. Torment for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. – Emile M. Cioran
  7. Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss. – Dick Gregory
  8. The only thing that exists is torment lyricism, and the magnificence of language. – John Hawkes
  9. Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul. – Mark Hoppus
  11. Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. – Thomas Jefferson
  12. Color is my day -long obsession, joy and torment – Claude Monet
  13. The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. – William Penn
  14. Love begets love. This torment is my joy. – Theodore Roethke
  15. 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. – Marquis de Sade

Usage examples for torment

  1. Why should you torment yourself so? ” – The Marriage of William Ashe by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  2. “ Augustine's eyes were drawing her down into their torment – Amabel Channice by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
  3. The mortal agony was dealing its last sharp blows, and every instinct impelled him to cry out against the torment – Prisoners of Conscience by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
  4. The less cultivated Jains believe in a region of torment – Vikram-and-the-Vampire-Classic-Hindu-Tales-of-Adventure-Magic-and-Romance by Burton, Isabel, Lady
  5. How could you torment me so long,- so long? ” – Erlach Court by Ossip Schubin
  6. And when she bent over him to bathe and dress his wound, he roused what force he had left in him, kissed her on her red mouth, sighed like a man delivered from torment and so gave up his soul happily. ” – Flemish Legends by Charles de Coster
  7. In truth, each in his own way felt keenly that we were leaving a world of life and possible comfort for one of torment and suffering. ” – My Attainment of the Pole by Frederick A. Cook
  8. Why do you torment yourself?" ” – The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann
  9. “ I held my breath, prepared to endure fresh torment – Father and Son by Edmund Gosse
  10. The worthy woman granted my request without any difficulty, and we were at our ease for the future, though the desires with which Armelline inspired me had become dreadful torment – The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  11. Although, said Luther, I had done no more but only freed people from that torment yet they might well give me thanks for it. ” – Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther by Martin Luther
  12. “ " That suits me well," said the tailor, " for then I shall have no need to torment myself any longer with the needle," and ran out himself and called the relations together. ” – Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Grimm Brothers
  13. You want to go after that poor girl and torment her; but she's dying and soon you won't be able to hurt her any more. ” – Fort Lafayette or, Love and Secession by Benjamin Wood
  14. Mine was a soul in torment listening to music in heaven. ” – Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend
  15. The torment I feel is somehow a part of joyousness. ” – Erik Dorn by Ben Hecht
  16. Has He sent you here to torment me? ” – The Witness by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
  17. Miss Goldthwaite had been married four years past, and had one little son, the joy and torment of her life. ” – Thankful Rest by Annie S. Swan
  18. The words chosen to press it express much pain and pains, much torment and labour. ” – The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
  19. Oh, sister, do you really think it possible that we can escape this place of torment – Marie Antoinette And Her Son by Louise Muhlbach Official

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