tourment

Inherited from Middle French tourment, torment, from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum. Related to tordre.

• IPA^(key): /tuʁ.mɑ̃/

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tourment m (plural tourments)

1. torture

   Les tourments de la faim.

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2. torment; discomfort; pain

• tourmente
• tourmenter

• “tourment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• muteront

• tourment

From Old French torment, from Latin tormentum.

tourment m (plural tourmens)

1. torture
2. torment; discomfort; pain

• French: tourment