Definition of: torment

(tôr′ment) noun
1. Intense bodily pain or mental anguish; agony; torture.
2. One who or that which torments.
3. The inflicting of torture.
4. Archaic Any device for inflicting torture, as the rack; also, the torture inflicted.
5. Hell. See synonyms under AGONY, PAIN.
—v.t. (tôr·ment′)
1. To subject to excruciating physical or mental suffering; torture.
2. To make miserable; afflict or vex grievously.
3. To harass or tease.
4. To distort; also, to throw into violent agitation. See synonyms under PERSECUTE. [<AF turment, OF torment, tourment <L tormentum a rack, orig. a machine for hurling missiles by means of torsion <torquere twist]
—tor·ment′ing·ly adverb
—tor·ment′ing·ness noun