The Collaborative International Dictionary
Torment \Tor*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. tormented; p. pr. & vb. n. tormenting.] [OF. tormenter, F. tourmenter.]
To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. `` Art thou come hither to torment us before our time? ''
--Matt. viii. 29.-
To pain; to distress; to afflict.
Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
--Matt. viii. 6. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances. [Colloq.]
To put into great agitation. [R.] ``[They], soaring on main wing, tormented all the air.''
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: torment)
WordNet
adj. experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation" [syn: anguished, tortured]
tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears; "hagridden...by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth"- C.S.Lewis [syn: hag-ridden, hagridden]
Wikipedia
Tormented is the debut studio album by the American rock band Staind, self-released in 1996. The album was originally only available in limited quantities in New England, United States, with the original release limited to 4,000 copies. There are cassette pressings of the album. However, only three are known to exist, making it almost impossible to find a copy. Tormented would later be re-released several times, without modification. The album was never sold in stores, and was instead sold at concerts and on their website in several forms. The album is Staind's heaviest album. In addition, Tormented includes guitar solos, which were not featured in the successive albums Dysfunction and Break The Cycle. The album contains an early version of " Mudshovel", named "Mudshuvel", the song which would propel Staind into mainstream rock success in 1999.
Tormented is an album by Abscess released in 2000.
Tormented is a 1960 horror movie directed and produced by Bert I. Gordon for Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, and starring Richard Carlson.
The film was featured in the fourth season of the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K).
Tormented can refer to
- Having been subjected to torment
- Tormented (1960 film), a thriller film directed by Bert I. Gordon
- Tormented (2009 British film), a British horror comedy film
- Tormented (2009 Salvadorean film), a computer animated short film
- Tormented (2011 film), a Japanese horror film
- Tormented (Abscess album)
- Tormented (Staind album)
Tormented is a 2009 British comedy horror and slasher film starring Alex Pettyfer, April Pearson, Dimitri Leonidas, Calvin Dean and newcomer Tuppence Middleton. It was directed by Jon Wright, produced by Cavan Ash, Tracy Brimm, Arvind Ethan David and Kate Myers and written by newcomer Stephen Prentice, the film was released on 22 May 2009 in the UK by Warner Bros.. Tormented was co-produced by BBC Films, Pathé, Slingshot Studios, Forward Films, and Screen West Midlands, and the music was composed by Orbital member Paul Hartnoll. The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics and it earned £284,757 on a £700,000 budget. Tormented was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 28 September 2009 by MPI Home Video.
Tormented'' (Atormentada'' in Spanish) is a computer animated short film written and directed by Sergio Rosa. Produced by El Salvador-based Do Studio, it was projected in select theaters as part of the Film and TV Workshop by Escuela de Comunicaciones Mónica Herrera in November 2009. The short film is considered to be the first professional computer animated ever produced in El Salvador, and part of the emerging salvadorean film industry.
is a 2011 Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Shimizu. The film involves Kiriko (Hikari Mitsushima) and her younger half-brother Daigo (Takeru Shibuya) who are haunted by a large rabbit-doll. Tormented premiered at the 68th Venice International Film Festival on September 7, 2011.
Usage examples of "tormented".
Indeed the tormented character of the novels themselves is evidence enough of his state of mind.
You see him now in your dreams and are tormented, but at home he will send you quiet dreams.
All week one terrible care has tormented me: how to make it so that he will not be ashamed before me because he spent those three thousand roubles.
There was, in these too-sudden words, something too mysterious and too subjective, perhaps not clear to himself, but that undoubtedly tormented him.
And yet at that moment, though the anguish of the new and unknown was indeed in his soul, he was tormented by something quite different.
For all his life he constantly remembered how they had sold him to the merchants, somewhere in the hot steppe, by a well, and how he, wringing his hands, had wept and begged his brothers not to sell him into slavery in a strange land, and now, seeing them after so many years, he again loved them beyond measure, but oppressed and tormented them even as he loved them.
These were the questions that immediately tormented his inexperienced and virgin heart.
Fenya, like a gentle and affectionate child, as if he had quite forgotten that he had just frightened, offended, and tormented her so much.
Believe me, gentlemen, what tormented me most this night was not that I had killed the old servant, and that I was threatened with Siberia, and all of that when?
Deep, infinite compassion suddenly took hold of him and at once tormented him.
Ivan tormented him no less than Mitya, and now, after his meeting with his brother, more than ever.
He felt an infinite firmness in himself: the end to his hesitations, which had tormented him so terribly all through those last days!
Apparently something there, some object, irritated him, troubled him, tormented him.
Being a highly honest young man by nature, and having thereby gained the trust of his master, who recognized this honesty in him when he returned the lost money, the unfortunate Smerdyakov was, one can only think, terribly tormented by remorse at his betrayal of his master, whom he loved as his benefactor.
On the other hand, his tormented soul, frantically fluttering about, trying to escape and ascend, so troubled me that I prayed to Allah to comfort him.