TORMENT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Meaning of torment in English
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(Definition of torment from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
Examples of torment
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On the other, torments surface about restricted occupational prospects and tedium.
This is an astonishing claim : pattern recognition of exactly this kind has tormented statisticians and computer scientists to no end.
This is my most painful torment , this is the worst of my misfortunes: to think of the past.
Western powers too played a less than glorious part in this twentieth-century drama, where imperial and ethnic nation-state projects have alternately tormented the region's society.
Precisely upon this torment the man directs his whole passion, which at last becomes a demoniac rage.
Some surrogates are tormented by the thought that they are "allowing" their loved one to die.
Torment is sanitized by its inclusion in a religious and spiritual framework.
We may not undergo his torments, but we can speak his words.
To justify infinite torment , there must be infinite harm inflicted.
Equus torments him, but it is also the sole element of transcendence in his otherwise meaningless existence.
To be tormented without a clear definition of the self is a distinctly modern affliction.
My limbs were tormented by the fire in my belly.
The emperor - seeks forgiveness for rebelling and imprisoning his father and so, by extension, to avoid the torment of hellfire.
The torment is not represented in dramatized form, through sensory details of the anguished body, nor reported directly by an eyewitness.
Well, one way to deal with such torment is to deaden or suppress the very good that is causing this torment .
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Translations of torment
in Chinese (Traditional)
折磨, 痛苦, 痛苦（或煩惱）之源…
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折磨, 痛苦, 痛苦（或烦恼）之源…
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atormentar, tormento…
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atormentar, tormento…
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eziyet etmek, azap çektirmek, işkence etmek…
seksa, seksaan, menyeksa…
die Qual, die Plage, quälen…
мука, мордування, джерело страждань…
utrpení, trýznění, trápit…
siksaan, penyebab siksaan, menyiksa…
ความทรมาน, สาเหตุที่ทำให้เจ็บปวดทรมาน, ทำให้ทรมาน…
nỗi đau, điều gây đau đớn, làm cho khổ sở…
dręczyć, udręka, męczarnie…
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