[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

torment \torment"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. tormented; p. pr. 
   vb. n. tormenting. of. tormenter, f. tourmenter.
   1. to put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating
      misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. " art
      thou come hither to torment us before our time? " --matt.
      viii. 29.
      1913 webster

   2. to pain; to distress; to afflict.
      1913 webster

            lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy,
            grievously tormented.                 --matt. viii.
                                                  6.
      1913 webster

   3. to tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with
      importunities, or with petty annoyances. colloq.
      1913 webster

   4. to put into great agitation. r. "they, soaring on main
      wing, tormented all the air." --milton.
      1913 webster
see also:
tormented tormenting 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

torment \tor"ment\, n. of. torment, f. tourment, fr. l.
   tormentum an engine for hurling missiles, an instrument of
   torture, a rack, torture, fr. torquere to turn, to twist,
   hurl. see turture.
   1. mil. antiq. an engine for casting stones. obs. --sir
      t. elyot.
      1913 webster

   2. extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of
      misery, either of body or mind. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            the more i see
            pleasures about me, so much more i feel
            torment within me.                    --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. that which gives pain, vexation, or misery.
      1913 webster

            they brought unto him all sick people that were
            taken with divers diseases and torments. --matt. iv.
                                                  24.
      1913 webster
see also:
turture 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

torment
     n 1: unbearable physical pain syn: torture
     2: extreme mental distress syn: anguish, torture
     3: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical
        pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"
        syn: agony, torture
     4: a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented;
        "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his
        tormentors" syn: harassment
     5: a severe affliction syn: curse
     6: the act of harassing someone syn: badgering, worrying,
        bedevilment
     v 1: torment emotionally or mentally syn: torture, excruciate,
           rack
     2: treat cruelly; "the children tormented the stuttering
        teacher" syn: rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate
     3: subject to torture; "the sinners will be tormented in hell,
        according to the bible" syn: torture, excruciate
see also:
torture anguish agony harassment curse badgering 
worrying bedevilment excruciate rack rag 
bedevil crucify dun frustrate 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

277 moby thesaurus words for "torment":
   abuse, afflict, affliction, aggravate, aggrieve, agonize,
   agonizingness, agony, ail, anguish, annoy, annoyance, annoyer,
   atrocious pain, badger, badgerer, bait, bane, be at, be the matter,
   bedevil, befoul, beset, bewitch, bite, blight, bloody, bother,
   break down, bring to tears, bristle, brown off, bug, bugbear,
   bully, bullyrag, burden, burn, burn up, calamity, chafe, chevy,
   chivy, claw, clawing, complicate matters, concern, condemn,
   confinement, convulse, corrupt, cruciation, crucifixion, crucify,
   crush, crushing burden, curse, cut, cut up, damage, death, defile,
   deprave, desolate, desolateness, desolation, despoil, destroy,
   destruction, devil, disadvantage, discommode, discompose, disease,
   dismemberment, disserve, distemper, distress, disturb,
   do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, dog, doom,
   draw tears, embitter, envenom, estrapade, evil, exasperate,
   excruciate, excruciatingness, excruciation, exercise, fash, fester,
   fret, fretting, gall, galleys, get, get into trouble, give pain,
   gnaw, grate, grievance, grieve, grind, gripe, harass, harasser,
   harassment, hard labor, harm, harrier, harrow, harry, haunt,
   heartbreak, heartsickness, heckle, heckler, hector, hell,
   hell upon earth, hex, holocaust, horror, hound, hunt, hurt, impair,
   impale, impalement, imprisonment, incarceration, inconvenience,
   infect, inflame, inflict pain, infliction, injure, inundate, irk,
   irritate, irritation, jailing, jinx, keelhauling, kill by inches,
   lacerate, laceration, lancinate, lancination, macerate, maltreat,
   martyr, martyrdom, martyrization, martyrize, menace, miff, misery,
   mistreat, molest, nag, needle, needling, nemesis, nettle,
   nightmare, nip, nudnik, nudzh, nuisance, open wound, oppress,
   ordeal, outrage, overwhelm, pain, painfulness, passion, peeve,
   penal servitude, perplex, persecute, persecution, persecutor,
   perturb, pest, pester, pesterer, pestilence, pick on, picketing,
   pierce, pinch, pique, plague, plaguer, play havoc with,
   play hob with, pluck the beard, poison, pollute, pother, prejudice,
   prick, prolong the agony, prostrate, provoke, punish, purgatory,
   pursue, put out, put to it, put to torture, puzzle, rack,
   railriding, rankle, rasp, ride, rile, rip, rock pile, roil, rub,
   ruffle, running sore, sadist, savage, scarify, scathe, scourge,
   smite, sorrow, stab, sting, strappado, suffering, taint,
   tar-and-feathering, tease, teaser, the gantlet, thorn, threaten,
   tormentingness, tormentor, torture, torturousness, trouble, try,
   try the patience, tweak, tweak the nose, twist, vex, vexation,
   victimize, violate, visitation, woe, worriedness,
   worries and cares, worriment, worry, worrying, wound,
   wreak havoc on, wretchedness, wring, wrong

[5] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

torment
   gr. basanos matt. 4:24, the "touch-stone" of justice; hence
   inquisition by torture, and then any disease which racks and
   tortures the limbs.
   

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