torment

Qual, Pein

Sehr starke körperliche Schmerzen oder seelisches Leiden.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

So benutzt man es: the torment of something (He could not escape the torment of his memories.)

Synonyme: agony, anguish, misery

Häufige Wendungen: mental torment, in torment, torment of something

Folter, Marter

Das absichtliche Zufügen starker Schmerzen, um jemanden zu bestrafen oder zum Reden zu zwingen.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

Synonyme: torture

Häufige Wendungen: inflict torment, suffer torment, cruel torment

quälen, peinigen

Jemanden durch Schmerzen, Angst, Sorgen oder wiederholte grausame Behandlung sehr leiden lassen.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

So benutzt man es: be tormented by something (She was tormented by memories of the crash.); torment someone with something (The children tormented him with cruel jokes.)

Synonyme: torture, plague, harass

Gegenteile: comfort, soothe

Häufige Wendungen: torment someone, torment an animal, torment yourself