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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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chiack
English
Alternative forms
- chyack
Etymology
From chi-ike.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?aijæk/, /t?aijæk/
Verb
chiack (third-person singular simple present chiacks, present participle chiacking, simple past and past participle chiacked)
- (Australia) To taunt or tease in jest.
- 1987, Sheila Anderson, End of the Season, in Anna Gibbs, Alison Tilson (editors), Frictions, An Anthology of Fiction by Women, page 45,
- They were cheerful enough, liked a bit of chiacking, and the women enjoyed the bawdy undertones of their jokes.
- 2008, Helen Garner, The Art of the Dumb Question, in True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction, page 13,
- Most poignantly of all, though, when I get fed up with working alone, I remember Victorian high school staffrooms of the sixties and seventies: the rigid hierarchy with its irritations, but also the chiacking, the squabbles, the timely advice from some old stager with a fag drooping off his lip.
- 2008, Graeme Blundell, The Naked Truth: A Life in Parts, 2011, unnumbered page,
- We believed Melbourne?s two most extraordinary institutions were those of chiacking – taking the piss – and larrikinism. Although the latter would develop derogatory connotations, and chiacking was already beginning to die a slow death, sometimes perceived as offensive in its more alcoholic forms, especially by the women in our group.
- 1987, Sheila Anderson, End of the Season, in Anna Gibbs, Alison Tilson (editors), Frictions, An Anthology of Fiction by Women, page 45,
- (Britain) To taunt maliciously.
- The gang of youths chiacked the academic.
Synonyms
- hound
- taunt
- jeer
References
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