All torment synonyms
torΒ·ment
T t verb torment
- fret β to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
- chivvy β If you chivvy someone, you keep telling them to do something that they do not want to do.
- impose on β to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- louting β an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
- disses β to show disrespect for; affront.
- jive β swing music or early jazz.
- curse β If you curse, you use rude or offensive language, usually because you are angry about something.
- overbear β to bear over or down by weight or force: With his superior strength he easily overbore his opponent in the fight.
- haunt β to visit habitually or appear to frequently as a spirit or ghost: to haunt a house; to haunt a person.
- excruciate β Torment (someone) physically or mentally.
- beat down β When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright.
- lean on β to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
- chivy β to harass or nag
- bludgeoning β a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
- dunning β to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.
- get in one's hair β to annoy one
- crucify β If someone is crucified, they are killed by being tied or nailed to a cross and left to die.
- cast down β If someone is cast down by something, they are sad or worried because of it.
- despotize β To behave like a despot.
- disenchant β to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- in flames β to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
- infatuating β to inspire or possess with a foolish or unreasoning passion, as of love.
- fussed β an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby.
- lay waste β to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- disenchanting β Present participle of disenchant.
- convulse β If someone convulses or if they are convulsed by or with something, their body moves suddenly in an uncontrolled way.
- winging β either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
- fall flat β horizontally level: a flat roof.
- agonise β to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in agony.
- dissed β to show disrespect for; affront.
- catch flies β any of various plants, especially of the genera Silene and Lychnis, having a viscid secretion on the stem and calyx in which small insects are sometimes caught.
- devilled β Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- bedevil β If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time.
- give a hard time β a period of difficulties or hardship.
- harass β to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- come to nothing β plan, idea: fail
- make waves β a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
noun torment
- hydra β A minute freshwater coelenterate with a stalklike tubular body and a ring of tentacles around the mouth.
- hardship β a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
- heartache β emotional pain or distress; sorrow; grief; anguish.
- nagging β continually faultfinding, complaining, or petulant: a nagging parent.
- distress β great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- heartbreak β great sorrow, grief, or anguish.
- excruciation β Some excruciating pain.
- bad news β someone or something regarded as undesirable
- nemesis β something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc.: The performance test proved to be my nemesis.
- forcibleness β The quality of being forcible.
- bedevilment β to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.