Aggrieve vs Torment - What's the difference?
aggrieve | torment | Related terms |
To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon;—now commonly used in the passive, to be aggrieved.
(obsolete) To grieve; to lament.
(obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
* Bible, Matthew iv. 24
To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex'' but weaker than ''to torture. )
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Aggrieve is a related term of torment.
In lang=en terms the difference between aggrieve and torment
is that aggrieve is to give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon;—now commonly used in the passive, to be aggrieved while torment is to cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex'' but weaker than ''to torture ).In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between aggrieve and torment
is that aggrieve is (obsolete) to grieve; to lament while torment is (obsolete) a catapult or other kind of war-engine.As verbs the difference between aggrieve and torment
is that aggrieve is to give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon;—now commonly used in the passive, to be aggrieved while torment is to cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex'' but weaker than ''to torture ).As a noun torment is
(obsolete) a catapult or other kind of war-engine.aggrieve
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*torment
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(en noun)- He was bitter from the torments of the divorce system.
- They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments .
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* tormentousVerb
(en verb)- The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.
Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport , 22 September 2013:
- Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.