Torment

Synonyms: abuse, afflict, affliction, aggravate, agonize, agony, anguish, annoy, annoyance, badger, bait, bane, be a nuisance to, be a pest to, bedevil, bother, bully, calamity, cause agony to, cause pain to, cause suffering to, chaff, chivvy, cross to bear, crucify, curse, discomfort, distress, excruciate, excruciation, harass, harassment, harrow, harry, hassle, hector, hell, inflict anguish on, irk, irritant, irritate, irritation, maltreat, misery, misfortune, mistreat, molest, mortify, nag, needle, nettle, nuisance, ordeal, pain, pain in the neck, persecute, persecution, pest, pester, plague, purgatory, rack, rag, rib, scorn, scourge, soreness, sorrow, suffering, taunt, tease, thorn in someone's side/flesh, torture, trauma, tribulation, trouble, vex, vexation, victimize, woe, worry, wretchedness

Antonyms: encourage, joy, pleasure, support

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Frequency: High Frequency

Content Type: basanti, bollywood, funny, gabbar, movie, sholay, thakur

torment English Hindi meaning

Torment Vocab Meme Dictionary – English to Hindi translation with picture dictionary

Torment [tawr-ment]

(noun) severe physical or mental suffering “their deaths have left both families in torment”
(noun) a cause of severe suffering “the journey must have been a torment for them”
(verb) cause to experience severe mental or physical suffering “he was tormented by jealousy”
(verb) annoy or provoke in an unkind way “every day I have kids tormenting me because they know I live alone”

Torment meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi Dictionary)

यातना, कष्ट, तड़पाना, सताना, कष्ट पहुंचाना

Torment Origin

Middle English (as both noun and verb referring to the infliction or suffering of torture): Old French torment (noun), tormenter (verb), from Latin tormentum ‘instrument of torture’, from torquere ‘to twist’.

Torment in a sentence (word usage in newspaper)

After undergoing the torment, I was released and immediately came back to Coimbatore.
To find peace from all the bad dreams that torment him, He sets off for a journey to the plains of silence.
Australia paceman Mitchell Johnson is at full throttle and ready to torment England’s batsmen again in the Ashes series.
They torment their wives for merely voicing their opinions.
With prices rising higher, onions are back to torment the government.

Mnemonic trick to remember the meaning of torment

torment – torrent per agar mujhe meri movie na mile to i feel tortured (torment)

Torment pronunciation

Basanti undergoing the torment