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Torment vs Traumatic - What's the difference?

torment | traumatic |

As nouns the difference between torment and traumatic

is that torment is a catapult or other kind of war-engine while traumatic is a medicine for wounds; a vulnerary.

As a verb torment

is to cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture..

As an adjective traumatic is

of, caused by, or causing trauma.

torment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
    • He was bitter from the torments of the divorce system.
  • * Bible, Matthew iv. 24
    • They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments .

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * tormentous

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex'' but weaker than ''to torture. )
    • The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.
  • * 2013 , Phil McNulty, " 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.

    Derived terms

    * tormentor

    traumatic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, caused by, or causing trauma
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VII , passage=It's a sort of disease. There's a scientific name for it. Trau- something. Traumatic' symplegia, that's it. This cat has ' traumatic symplegia. In other words, putting it in simple language adapted to the lay mind, where other cats are content to get their eight hours, Augustus wants his twenty-four.}}
  • * 2011 , September 18, Don Thompson and Ken Ritter, “Reno air race crash scene shows violence of impact”, Associated Press:
    • "I've seen more patients, but never this many patients with this number of severe injuries," said Dr. Michael Morkin, chief of Renown's emergency department. "It was traumatic ."
  • (medicine, dated) Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds.
    • (Coxe)
  • (dated) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.
    • (Wiseman)
  • Produced by wounds.
    • traumatic tetanus

    Antonyms

    * non-traumatic * nontraumatic * untraumatic

    Derived terms

    * traumatic amenorrhea * traumatic amputation * traumatic anesthesia * traumatic arrest * traumatic asphyxia * traumatic brain injury

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated, medicine) A medicine for wounds; a vulnerary.