torment

苦痛、苦悩

非常に激しい体の痛みや心の苦しみ。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： the torment of something (He could not escape the torment of his memories.)

類義語： agony, anguish, misery

よく使う表現： mental torment, in torment, torment of something

拷問

罰を与えたり話させたりするために、わざと激しい痛みを与えること。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： torture

よく使う表現： inflict torment, suffer torment, cruel torment

苦しめる、いじめる

痛み、恐怖、心配、繰り返す残酷な扱いで、人をひどく苦しめる。

やさしい英語で： 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.

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

類義語： torture, plague, harass

反対語： comfort, soothe

よく使う表現： torment someone, torment an animal, torment yourself