Definition of Torment

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Torment

An engine for casting stones.

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

That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.

To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture.

To pain; to distress; to afflict.

To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.

To put into great agitation.

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Torment Quotations

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Thomas Jefferson

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Jane Austen

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
James A. Baldwin

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
Epicurus

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
Marquis de Sade

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.
Charles Manson

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Dick Gregory

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
William Penn

Torment Translations

torment in Dutch is martelen, koeioneren, kwellen
torment in Finnish is kiduttaa
torment in French is tourmenter, torture
torment in German is Qual, schikanieren, peinige
torment in Latin is torqueo, cruciamentum, cruciatus, crucio, macero
torment in Swedish is pina, kval

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