tormento — meaning in English

English meaning

• ordeal noun A very difficult, painful, or exhausting experience.
• scourge noun A whip, especially one with several lashes, historically used to punish or torture.
• torment noun Severe physical or mental suffering.
• torture noun The deliberate infliction of severe pain, especially to punish someone or force information out of them.

Senses

tormento is used for these senses in English:

• scourge A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
• torment Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.

ordeal — full definition

1. noun A very difficult, painful, or exhausting experience.
2. noun Historically, a trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous physical test, the outcome believed to reveal guilt or innocence by divine judgment.

scourge — full definition

1. noun A whip, especially one with several lashes, historically used to punish or torture.
2. noun A person or thing that causes widespread suffering.
3. verb To cause great and lasting suffering to; to afflict severely.

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