torments 1 of 2

plural of torment

torments

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of torment

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for torments
Noun
  • This film is truly the stuff of teen-outcast nightmares.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Extreme fatigue that turned mornings into catatonic nightmares.
    Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Parker’s series starts out with too much bellowing and yelling along with hazing and bullying but loosens up and broadens out to peer into the lives of other recruits who are wrestling with demons and sometimes each other.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • When their biggest demonic enemy (Lee Byung-hun) encourages the formation of an equally popular K-pop boy band aimed at stealing the souls of their fans, the trio has to fight harder than ever to hold the demons at bay while keeping their friendship intact.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In 2014, the now 69-year-old actress spoke about experiencing menopause at a time when so few women publicly did so, often fearing the unfair combination of sexism and ageism that plagues many, especially in TV and film.
    Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Every unit can be audited on a public ledger, reducing the opacity that plagues traditional finance.
    Luke Xie, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Aches and pains don’t compare to the agony of an unrealized dream.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Such pleasurable pains, at their most chronic, or their most carnal, can keep Lang occupied for the length of a stanza.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • It's been a consistently reliable genre in the decades since, pairing mental anguish and unreliable perspectives with nightmarish imagery and terrors that lie just beyond our perceptions.
    Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The series is set in the seemingly idyllic town of Blooming Hills, where unknown forces unleash chilling terrors on local teens.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Former Jews deemed insufficiently converted faced the Spanish Inquisition’s tortures.
    David Bloom, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Motion sickness afflicts one in three adults and one in two children.
    Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Whether the winner’s curse afflicts buyers in other countries remains an open question.
    Fortune, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The horrors can impact humans, animals and Earth are on full display at Fright for Future.
    Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The horrors of Gaza, at least for now, have been paused.
    Faisal J. Abbas, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Torments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/torments. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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