Definition of "torment" []

• Great physical pain or mental anguish. (noun)
• A source of harassment, annoyance, or pain. (noun)
• The torture inflicted on prisoners under interrogation. (noun)
• To cause to undergo great physical pain or mental anguish. See Synonyms at afflict. (verb-transitive)
• To agitate or upset greatly. (verb-transitive)

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• "Throughout, [Hans-Christian] Schmid remains agnostic, suggesting that Michaela's problems, whatever their origin, prove only that a mind in torment is a terrible thing."
• "Poses and gestures change meaning, from an expression of torment in "Scene of War" to the benign motion of a bather wringing out her hair."
• "Of one thing he was certain: No drop of red dew shaken from the lion-mane of some sun in torment, was the sounding sphere."