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pain vs torment

torment vs pain

pain and torment both are nouns.

pain and torment both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
pain Yes No Yes No
torment Yes No Yes No
As nouns, torment is a hyponym of pain; that is, torment is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pain:
  • pain: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
  • torment: unbearable physical pain
Other hyponyms of pain include ache, aching, agony, excruciation, suffering, arthralgia, burn, burning, causalgia, colic, gripes, griping, intestinal colic, chest pain, chiralgia, distress, dysmenorrhea, glossalgia, glossodynia, growing pains, keratalgia, labor pain, mastalgia, melagra, meralgia, metralgia, myalgia, myodynia, nephralgia, neuralgia, neuralgy, odynophagia, orchidalgia, pang, pang, sting, photalgia, photophobia, costalgia, pleuralgia, pleurodynia, podalgia, proctalgia, referred pain, renal colic, smart, smarting, smartness, sting, stinging, stitch, rawness, soreness, tenderness, thermalgesia, throb, torture, ulalgia, urodynia.
As verbs, torment is a hyponym of pain; that is, torment is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pain:
  • pain: cause emotional anguish or make miserable
  • torment: torment emotionally or mentally
Other hyponyms of pain include break someone's heart, agonise, agonize, try, excruciate, rack, torture.
pain (noun) torment (noun)
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort the act of harassing someone
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness a severe affliction
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder extreme mental distress
a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
unbearable physical pain
pain (verb) torment (verb)
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed subject to torture
cause emotional anguish or make miserable torment emotionally or mentally
treat cruelly
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