torment


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Synonyms for torment

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for torment

excruciating punishment

to subject (another) to extreme physical cruelty, as in punishing

to come to mind continually

The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Synonyms for torment

unbearable physical pain

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extreme mental distress

intense feelings of suffering

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a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented

a severe affliction

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the act of harassing someone

torment emotionally or mentally

subject to torture

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This important step will mean fewer families will suffer the torment of not knowing where their loved ones' remains are.
The relevant state services are also aware of the torment the family went through after he was freed from prison and are looking for an alternative home where the victim's family could be moved.
Each had the demons which tormented them "recreated" in VR.
The story is given fast forward, and we find the two protagonists in their final destiny: the rich man in a place of torment while Lazarus in the bosom of Abraham.
On Wednesday, "Specter of Torment" became available for purchase on (http://store.steampowered.com/app/589510/) Steam .
Joseph Sabol's story, as chronicled in his self-published autobiography Adoptee: A Childhood of Torment, pulls no punches, quite literally, when retelling his story of being in the foster system prior to being adopted by John and Tilly Sabol.
Belle is in torment Bailey feels guilty for not spotting her symptoms, and Lisa comforts him when they are told Belle is to be sectioned.
Since he cruelly killed their daughter this brute has managed to continually add to their torment.
AN innocent man's "18 months of torment" are finally over after he was cleared of launching several arson attacks at the Three Crowns pub.
I write in response to "'Matadors' torment black men,'' (Telegram and Gazette, Nov.
Mainline evangelical Fudge proposes a conditionalist understanding of hell as a place of total, everlasting destruction to replace the traditionalist view of hell as unending conscious torment, and finds justification for it in the Bible.
TORMENT SAINT: THE LIFE OF ELLIOTT SMITH provides a fine biography of a musician whose many influences and personas permeated genres and changed lives.
The main thematic categories identified were: the trail of torment leading to the decision to amputate; the turning point--taking the decision; "I just couldn't take any more pain"; "we opt for life, we don't want to die".
Last summer North Carolina legislators made it a Class 2 misdemeanor, punishable by up to 60 days in jail or a $0,000 fine, for any student to use a computer with the "intent to intimidate or torment" school employees.