Suffering vs. Torment — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Suffering and Torment
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Suffering
Suffering, or pain in a broad sense, may be an experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with the perception of harm or threat of harm in an individual. Suffering is the basic element that makes up the negative valence of affective phenomena.
Torment
Great physical pain or mental anguish.
Suffering
The state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship
Weapons that cause unnecessary suffering
His disregard for the sufferings of his fellow countrymen
Torment
A source of harassment, annoyance, or pain.
Suffering
The condition of one who suffers; the bearing of pain or distress.
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Torment
The torture inflicted on prisoners under interrogation.
Suffering
An instance of pain or distress.
Torment
To cause to undergo great physical pain or mental anguish.
Suffering
Experiencing pain; characterized by suffering.
Torment
To annoy, pester, or harass
Tormented by the children's pleas to be taken to the mall.
Suffering
The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
Torment
(obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
Suffering
Present participle of suffer
Torment
Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
Suffering
The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs.
Torment
Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
He was bitter from the torments of the divorce.
Suffering
Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.
Torment
(transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)
The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.
Suffering
A state of acute pain
Torment
An engine for casting stones.
Suffering
Misery resulting from affliction
Torment
Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.
The more I seePleasures about me, so much more I feelTorment within me.
Suffering
Psychological suffering;
The death of his wife caused him great distress
Torment
That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.
They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments.
Suffering
Feelings of mental or physical pain
Torment
To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture.
Suffering
Troubled by pain or loss;
Suffering refugees
Torment
To pain; to distress; to afflict.
Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
Suffering
Very unhappy; full of misery;
He felt depressed and miserable
A message of hope for suffering humanity
Wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages
Torment
To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.
Torment
To put into great agitation.
Torment
Unbearable physical pain
Torment
Extreme mental distress
Torment
Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain;
An agony of doubt
The torments of the damned
Torment
A feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented;
So great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors
Torment
A severe affliction
Torment
The act of harassing someone
Torment
Torment emotionally or mentally
Torment
Treat cruelly;
The children tormented the stuttering teacher
Torment
Subject to torture;
The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible
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