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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. Related Definitions: Afflict, Agitation, An, Anguish, As, Be, Body, Casting, Degree, Distress, Either, Engine, Excruciating, Extreme, For, Gives, Great, Harass, Importunities, Inflict, Into, Mind, Misery, Of, Or, Pain, Petty, Put, Tease, That, The, To, Torture, Tormented, Upon, Utmost, Vex, Vexation, Which, With |
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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 |
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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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