Usually means: Intense suffering, physical or mental.
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  1. torment: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. torment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. torment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. torment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. torment: Vocabulary.com
  6. Torment, torment: Wordnik
  7. torment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. torment: Wiktionary
  9. torment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. torment: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. torment: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Torment, torment: Dictionary.com
  13. torment (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. torment: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Torment, Torment (Kate novel), Torment (Six Feet Under album), Torment (Zoogz Rift album), Torment (comics), Torment (film), Torment (novel), Torment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Torment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. torment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. torment: Rhymezone
  19. Torment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. torment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. torment: Free Dictionary
  22. torment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. torment: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. torment: Idioms

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  1. Torment: Easton Bible

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  1. torment: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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