torment

• vt.苦しめる、苦痛を与える；もつれさせる、あざ笑う
• n. 苦痛、苦悩；苦しみの源

ラテン語のtorquere（捻る）から、語源的にはturn（回す）、torque（トルク）と同じ。派生語源は、苦悩、苦痛。

torment

torment: [13] The notion underlying torment is of an instrument of torture worked by ‘twisting’. The word was borrowed from Latin tormentum ‘instrument of torture’, hence ‘torture, great suffering’. This was a contraction of an earlier *torquementum, a derivative of torquēre ‘twist’, which has also given English contort [15], extort [16], retort [16], torch, torque [19], torsion [15], tort [14], tortuous [15], and torture [16] (literally ‘twisting’).
=> contort, extort, retort, thwart, torch, torque, torsion, tort, torture

torment (n.)

c. 1300, "the inflicting of torture," also "state of great suffering, pain, distress," from Old French torment "torture, pain, anguish, suffering distress" (11c., Modern French tourment), from Latin tormentum "twisted cord, sling; clothes-press; instrument for hurling stones," also "instrument of torture, a rack," figuratively "anguish, pain, torment," from torquere "to twist" (see torque (n.)).

torment (v.)

c. 1300, "inflict torture on, distress," from Old French tormenter "torture, torment, oppress, agitate" (12c.), from Medieval Latin tormentare "to torment, to twist," from Latin tormentum (see torment (n.)). Related: Tormented; tormenting.

1. Outdoors,mosquitoes and midges were a perpetual torment .

戸外では、蚊や虫は永遠に安らかではありません。

2.the cries of a man in torment

拷問を受けた人の叫び声

3.Love is a sweet tyranny，because the lover endures his torment willingly.

愛は甘い暴政であり、恋人はその苦しみに甘んじて耐えている。

4.It was wicked of you to torment the poor girl.

哀れな女の子を苦しめるなんて、悪質だ。

5.He has never suffered the torment of rejection.

拒絶される苦しみを経験したことがない。