English-Spanish translations for torment

• atormentar
  Dejen de atormentar a la Constitución. Stop tormenting the Constitution.
  ¿Por qué seguimos utilizándolo para atormentar a nuestros ciudadanos, privándoles del trabajo y del sustento? Why do we continue to use it to torment our citizens, by depriving them of work and a livelihood?
  En este momento no deseo aburrir ni atormentar a esta Cámara, pero podría perfectamente, aquí y ahora, enumerar las ocasiones en que me he presentado aquí para informar de este proyecto. Right now, I have no desire to bore the House or to torment it, but I could well, here and now, read out a list of the occasions on which I have appeared before it to inform it about this project.
• tormento
  Debemos tener esto en cuenta cuando evaluemos los tormentos que tienen que soportar las mujeres en los conflictos armados. We should keep this in mind when we take account of the torments women have to endure in armed conflicts.
  Si se desarrollan los métodos de teledetección, cabe esperar que se reduzca la burocracia que supone un tormento continuo para los agricultores. As remote sensing methods develop, it is to be hoped that they will help reduce the bureaucracy which is a continual torment to farmers.
  Como mínimo, debemos intentar empatizar con los traumas y tormentos de aquellos que han de vivir con el recuerdo atroz de un delito, de aquellos que tienen que vivir sin sus seres queridos. The very least we should do is try to empathise with the traumas and torment of those who have to live with a raw memory of a crime, who have to live without their loved ones.

Definition of torment

• A catapult or other kind of war-engine
• Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental
• To cause severe suffering to (stronger than ''to vex'but weaker than ''to torture.''

Examples

• He was bitter from the torments of the divorce system.
• The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.

Related words

• tormentor
• tormenting
• tormentil
• tormented
• tormentress
• tormentils
• untormented
• self-torment
• motormental retardation