different between heartbreak vs torment
heartbreak
English
Etymology
From heart +? break
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h??t.b?e?k/
- (US) IPA(key): /h??t.b?e?k/
Noun
heartbreak (countable and uncountable, plural heartbreaks)
- overwhelming mental anguish or grief, especially that caused by loss or disappointment
Translations
heartbreak From the web:
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- what heartbreak does to you
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- what heartbreak looks like
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- what heartbreak does to your brain
- what heartbreak can do to you
torment
English
Etymology
From Middle English torment, from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum (“something operated by twisting”), from torquere (“to twist”).
Pronunciation
- (noun) IPA(key): /?t??(?)m?nt/
- (verb) IPA(key): /t??(?)?m?nt/
Noun
torment (countable and uncountable, plural torments)
- (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
- Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
- Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
- He was bitter from the torments of the divorce.
- They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:pain
Derived terms
- tormentous
Translations
Verb
torment (third-person singular simple present torments, present participle tormenting, simple past and past participle tormented)
- (transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)
- The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 22 September 2013:
- Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.
Derived terms
- tormentor
Translations
Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum.
Noun
torment (plural torments)
- torment (suffering, pain)
Descendants
- English: torment
Middle French
Alternative forms
- tourment
Etymology
From Old French torment, from Latin tormentum.
Noun
torment m (plural torments)
- torment; suffering; anguish
Old French
Alternative forms
- turment
Etymology
From Latin tormentum.
Noun
torment m (oblique plural tormenz or tormentz, nominative singular tormenz or tormentz, nominative plural torment)
- torture
- (figuratively, by extension) suffering; torment
Descendants
- Middle English: torment (borrowing)
- English: torment
- Middle French: torment, tourment
- French: tourment
References
- “tourment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old Occitan
Etymology
From Latin tormentum.
Noun
torment m (nominative singular torments)
- suffering; torment
Descendants
- Catalan: turment
- Occitan: torment
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