torment
VERB:
1. to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain:
to be tormented with violent headaches.
2. to worry or annoy excessively:
to torment one with questions.
3. to throw into commotion; stir up; disturb.
4. to afflict with great pain, suffering, or anguish; torture.
5. to tease or pester in an annoying way:
stop tormenting the dog.
6. to cause severe usually persistent or recurrent distress of body or mind to:
cattle tormented by flies // tormented by doubt // She liked me, but she laughed at me, and tormented me … —Charles Dickens.
7. distort, twist.
Origin:
First recorded in 1250–1300; (noun) Middle English, from Old French, from Latin tormentum “rope, catapult, torture,” from unattested torkw-ment- (see torque, -ment); (verb) Middle English tormenten, from Old French tormenter, derivative of torment (compare Late Latin tormentāre). British dictionary: C13: from Old French, from Latin tormentum, from torquēre. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of torment: Noun: 13th century. Verb: 13th century. istory and Etymology for torment: Noun: Middle English, from Anglo-French turment, torment, from Latin tormentum torture; akin to torquēre to twist — more at torture entry 1. —Merriam-Webster.
Source: 1, 2.
Added: 7 August 2020 {11:10 AM}
1. to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain:
to be tormented with violent headaches.
2. to worry or annoy excessively:
to torment one with questions.
3. to throw into commotion; stir up; disturb.
4. to afflict with great pain, suffering, or anguish; torture.
5. to tease or pester in an annoying way:
stop tormenting the dog.
6. to cause severe usually persistent or recurrent distress of body or mind to:
cattle tormented by flies // tormented by doubt // She liked me, but she laughed at me, and tormented me … —Charles Dickens.
7. distort, twist.
Origin:
First recorded in 1250–1300; (noun) Middle English, from Old French, from Latin tormentum “rope, catapult, torture,” from unattested torkw-ment- (see torque, -ment); (verb) Middle English tormenten, from Old French tormenter, derivative of torment (compare Late Latin tormentāre). British dictionary: C13: from Old French, from Latin tormentum, from torquēre. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of torment: Noun: 13th century. Verb: 13th century. istory and Etymology for torment: Noun: Middle English, from Anglo-French turment, torment, from Latin tormentum torture; akin to torquēre to twist — more at torture entry 1. —Merriam-Webster.
Source: 1, 2.
Added: 7 August 2020 {11:10 AM}