Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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torment | Yes | No | Yes | No |
plague | Yes | No | Yes | No |
torment (noun) | plague (noun) |
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the act of harassing someone | an annoyance |
a severe affliction | any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) |
intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain | a swarm of insects that attack plants |
extreme mental distress | a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal |
a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented | any epidemic disease with a high death rate |
unbearable physical pain |
torment (verb) | plague (verb) |
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subject to torture | annoy continually or chronically |
torment emotionally or mentally | cause to suffer a blight |
treat cruelly |