torment

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteA catapult or other kind of war-engine.

2. 2

   Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.

   I've gone through living torment.

3. 3

   Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.

   He behaved bitter from the torments of the divorce.

   They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments.

verb

1. 1

   To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)

   The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.

   Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.

   But the divine children were both noisy and mischievous. They tormented their venerable grandmother with their shrill uproar and tricky behaviour.

Forms

plural

torments

past tense

tormented

past participle

tormented

present participle

tormenting

third person singular

torments