Definitions for torments

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torments tor·ment

Spelling: [verb tawr-ment, tawr-ment; noun Torments is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 300 anagrams from letters in torments (emnorstt).

Definitions for torments

noun

1. a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery.
2. something that causes great bodily or mental pain or suffering.
3. a source of much trouble, worry, or annoyance.
4. an instrument of torture, as the rack or the thumbscrew.
5. the infliction of torture by means of such an instrument or the torture so inflicted.
6. a state of great bodily or mental suffering; agony; misery.
7. something that causes great bodily or mental pain or suffering.
8. a source of much trouble, worry, or annoyance.
9. an instrument of torture, as the rack or the thumbscrew.
10. the infliction of torture by means of such an instrument or the torture so inflicted.

verb (used with object)

1. to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain:
2. to worry or annoy excessively:
3. to throw into commotion; stir up; disturb.
4. to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain:
5. to worry or annoy excessively:
6. to throw into commotion; stir up; disturb.

Origin of torments

1250-1300; (noun) Middle English Old French Latin tormentum rope, catapult, torture *tork^w-ment- (see torque, -ment); (v.) Middl

Examples for torments

The torment was far too racking for such futile fashion of lamentation.

It seemed to relieve the tension drawn by the other woman's torment.

Year after year they have to endure the torment of being required to live up to the role that Ernest Hemingway gave them.

We are the sick ones who torment trans people every day of their lives.

The reply of the young man was merely a brief mention of the place of torment.

Unlike the Cheneys, here is a man whose misdemeanors came to torment him.

You've come to torment us before the time; do cease this noise!

But in another letter we hear the director who knows how to evoke that torment from his actor and put it on screen.

From the top of the narrow staircase to the foot, and he had lived a year's torment!

The periodic agony that accompanies sickle cell was joined by the torment of persistent eye infections and repeated surgeries.

From the top of the narrow staircase to the foot, and he had lived a year's torment!

We are the sick ones who torment trans people every day of their lives.

The periodic agony that accompanies sickle cell was joined by the torment of persistent eye infections and repeated surgeries.

Unlike the Cheneys, here is a man whose misdemeanors came to torment him.

The torment was far too racking for such futile fashion of lamentation.

The reply of the young man was merely a brief mention of the place of torment.

But in another letter we hear the director who knows how to evoke that torment from his actor and put it on screen.

You've come to torment us before the time; do cease this noise!

Year after year they have to endure the torment of being required to live up to the role that Ernest Hemingway gave them.

It seemed to relieve the tension drawn by the other woman's torment.