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torment

noun
🔊/ˈtɔːment/
🔊/ˈtɔːrment/
[uncountable, countable] (formal)
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  1. extreme pain, especially mental pain; a person or thing that causes this （尤指精神上的）折磨，痛苦；苦难之源synonym anguish
    • She suffered years of mental torment after her son's death.儿子去世后，她多年悲痛欲绝。🔊🔊
    • in torment the cries of a man in torment 一个备受折磨的人的喊叫声
    • The flies were a terrible torment.苍蝇一度肆虐。🔊🔊
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    • Hell as a place of eternal torment地狱作为一个永受煎熬之所
    • The sea wailed like a soul in torment.大海如同遭受痛苦的灵魂一样哀诉。
    • the torment inflicted on a young girl by her mother母亲对小女孩的折磨
    • Somehow, with her soul in torment, she managed to get through the day.不知何故，她的灵魂遭受了折磨，她设法度过了一天。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • great
    • emotional
    • inner
    • …
    verb + torment
    • endure
    • suffer
    • escape
    • …
    preposition
    • in torment
    phrases
    • be released from torment
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    Word OriginMiddle 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’.

torment

verb
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Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they torment
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he / she / it torments
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past simple tormented
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🔊/tɔːrˈmentɪd/
past participle tormented
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-ing form tormenting
🔊/tɔːˈmentɪŋ/
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  1. torment somebody (formal) to make somebody suffer very much使备受折磨；使痛苦；烦扰 synonym plague
    • He was tormented by feelings of insecurity.他苦于没有安全感。🔊🔊
  2. torment somebody/something to annoy a person or an animal in a cruel way
    3. 戏弄；捉弄；纠缠synonym torture
    Word OriginMiddle 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’.
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