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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tor•men•tor (tôr men′tər, tôr′men-),USA pronunciation n. - a person or thing that torments.
- [Theat.]a curtain or framed structure behind the proscenium at both sides of the stage, for screening the wings from the audience. Cf. teaser (def. 2).
Also, tor•ment′er. - Anglo-French; Old French tormenteor. See torment, -or2
- Middle English tormento(u)r 1250–1300
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: tormentor, tormenter /tɔːˈmɛntə/ n - a person or thing that torments
- a curtain or movable piece of stage scenery at either side of the proscenium arch, used to mask lights or exits and entrances
- a panel of sound-insulating material placed outside the field of the camera to control the acoustics on the sound stage
tor•ment /v. tɔrˈmɛnt, ˈtɔrmɛnt; n. ˈtɔrmɛnt/USA pronunciation v. [~ + object]- to cause (someone) to feel severe suffering:The disease tormented him night and day.
- to worry or annoy too much;
keep bothering;
plague:constantly tormenting me with her schemes.
n. - a state of suffering;
agony;
misery:[uncountable]the torment of cancer. - [countable] something that causes pain or suffering.
- [countable] a source of much trouble, worry, or annoyance.
tor•ment•ing•ly, adv. tor•men•tor, tor•ment•er, n. [countable]: lost his patience and punched his tormentor in the nose.See -tort-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tor•ment (v. tôr ment′, tôr′ment;n. tôr′ment),USA pronunciation v.t. - to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering;
pain:to be tormented with violent headaches. - to worry or annoy excessively:to torment one with questions.
- to throw into commotion;
stir up;
disturb.
n. - a state of great bodily or mental suffering;
agony;
misery. - something that causes great bodily or mental pain or suffering.
- a source of much trouble, worry, or annoyance.
- an instrument of torture, as the rack or the thumbscrew.
- the infliction of torture by means of such an instrument or the torture so inflicted.
- Old French tormenter, derivative of torment (compare Late Latin tormentāre)
- *torkw-ment- (see torque, -ment); (verb, verbal) Middle English tormenten
- Latin tormentum rope, catapult, torture
- Old French
- (noun, nominal) Middle English 1250–1300
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged harry, hector, vex, distress, agonize. Torment, rack, torture suggest causing great physical or mental pain, suffering, or harassment. To torment is to afflict or harass as by incessant repetition of vexations or annoyances:to be tormented by doubts.To rack is to affect with such pain as that suffered by one stretched on a rack; to concentrate with painful effort:to rack one's brains.To torture is to afflict with acute and more or less protracted suffering:to torture one by keeping one in suspense.
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged plague, pester, tease, provoke, needle, trouble, fret.
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged torture, distress, anguish.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged please.
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