torment

tormento, sufrimiento

Dolor físico o sufrimiento emocional muy intensos.

En inglés sencillo: Very great physical pain or mental suffering.

• Her guilt caused endless torment.
• He lived in torment after the accident.
• The medicine finally relieved the torment of her headaches.

Cómo se usa: the torment of something (He could not escape the torment of his memories.)

Sinónimos: agony, anguish, misery

Expresiones frecuentes: mental torment, in torment, torment of something

tortura, tormento

Uso intencionado de dolor intenso para castigar a alguien u obligarlo a hablar.

En inglés sencillo: The deliberate use of severe pain to punish someone or force them to speak.

• The prisoners suffered cruel torment.
• The captors used torment to force a confession.
• The account describes the torment inflicted with a wooden rack.

Sinónimos: torture

Expresiones frecuentes: inflict torment, suffer torment, cruel torment

atormentar

Hacer sufrir mucho a alguien mediante dolor, miedo, preocupación o un trato cruel repetido.

En inglés sencillo: To make someone suffer greatly through pain, fear, worry, or repeated cruel treatment.

• The older boys tormented him.
• She was tormented by guilt for years.
• Don't torment yourself with questions you cannot answer.

Cómo se usa: be tormented by something (She was tormented by memories of the crash.); torment someone with something (The children tormented him with cruel jokes.)

Sinónimos: torture, plague, harass

Antónimos: comfort, soothe

Expresiones frecuentes: torment someone, torment an animal, torment yourself