Usually means: Causes intense suffering or distress.
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  1. torments: Merriam-Webster
  2. torments: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. Torments, torments: Wordnik
  5. torments: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. torments: Wiktionary
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  8. torments: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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(Note: See torment as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (torment)

noun:  (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
noun:  Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
noun:  Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
verb:  (transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)
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