torment

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Basit İngilizce açıklama: 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.

Nasıl kullanılır: the torment of something (He could not escape the torment of his memories.)

Eş anlamlılar: agony, anguish, misery

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: mental torment, in torment, torment of something

işkence

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Basit İngilizce açıklama: 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.

Eş anlamlılar: torture

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: inflict torment, suffer torment, cruel torment

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Basit İngilizce açıklama: 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.

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

Eş anlamlılar: torture, plague, harass

Zıt anlamlılar: comfort, soothe

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: torment someone, torment an animal, torment yourself