Wordie: Torment

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(n): a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder

(n): extreme mental distress

(n): psychological suffering

(n): intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

(n): feelings of mental or physical pain

(n): a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented

(n): anger produced by some annoying irritation

(n): a severe affliction

(n): a cause of great suffering and distress

(n): the act of harassing someone

(n): the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism

(v): torment emotionally or mentally

(v): cause emotional anguish or make miserable

(v): treat cruelly

(v): annoy continually or chronically

(v): subject to torture

(v): cause injuries or bodily harm to

verb, noun

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4 months ago anydelirium said:

'Thou are to me a delicious torment. Thine ever, or never.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson

9 months ago frangarnes said: Pronunciation

When it's a verb: /tɔ:'ment/ (last syllable stressed) // when it's a noun: /'tɔ:ment/ (first syllable stressed)

9 months ago frangarnes said: Spanish translation

Atormentar, tormento

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