Torment

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun An engine for casting stones.

II. Torment ·vt To put into great agitation.

III. Torment ·noun That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.

IV. Torment ·noun Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.

V. Torment ·vt To Pain; to Distress; to Afflict.

VI. Torment ·vt To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to Torture.

VII. Torment ·vt To Tease; to Vex; to Harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.

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