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torment
Synonyms and Antonyms of torment
- The released soldiers gave interviews trying to explain to civilians the torment that prisoners of war experience.
- Jay was in torment for weeks after he broke up with his girlfriend.
affliction, agony, anguish, distress, excruciation, hurt, misery, pain, rack, strait(s), torture, travail, tribulation, woe
torment
Synonyms and Antonyms of torment
- He was tormented by nightmares about the accident.
badger, dog, hound, pursue, ride
aggravate, agitate, annoy, bother, bug, chafe, distress, disturb, exasperate, gall, get, grate, gripe, hagride, harass, harry, irk, irritate, molest, nettle, peeve, pester, pique, put out, rasp, rile, vex
discomfort, discompose, disquiet, fluster, grieve, perturb, strain, stress, trouble, try, upset, worry
crush, oppress, overpower, overwhelm, smite, strike, tyrannize, victimize
Synonym Discussion of torment
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- ills that afflict the elderly
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- children often try their parents' patience
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- a horse tormented by flies
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- tortured by a sense of guilt
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- a body racked by pain
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