Noun: torment
| Singular | torment |
| Plural | torments |
Sample Sentences
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I've gone through living torment.
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He behaved bitter from the torments of the divorce.
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They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 4:24:]
Nouns inflected like torment
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English torment, from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum (“something operated by twisting”), from torquere (“to twist”). See: Middle English Nouns '
torment', Latin Nouns '
tormentum'.
Verbs referencing "torment"
Middle English Nouns
tormentise.