Wat betekent torment in het Engels en wat is de definitie van torment?

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torment Betekenis, Definitie, Uitspraak, Grammatica & Synoniemen❤️

0 great mental suffering and unhappiness, or great physical pain:
- The family said they had endured years of torment and abuse at the hands of their neighbours.
- Waiting for the result of the medical tests was sheer torment.
- He spent the night in torment, trying to decide what was the best thing to do.
- Nothing can describe the torments we went through while we were waiting for news.
- Writing reports was a monthly torment to him.
1 to cause a person or animal to suffer or worry:
- The animals are tormented mercilessly by flies and mosquitoes.
- The camera focused on a group of women whose faces were tormented by/with (= showed that they were suffering) grief.
- It tormented me all day - had I said the wrong thing and hurt her feelings?
2 great mental or physical suffering, or something that causes such pain:
- [ U ] After three days of torment, she went to a dentist.
- [ C ] That child acts like it’s a torment to see me.

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.
But they erupted again, and for almost twenty years the mal continued to torment the villagers to various degrees.
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.