{
    "term": "torment",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "extreme pain, especially mental pain; a person or thing that causes this",
            "sensetop": "in torment",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She suffered years of mental torment after her son's death."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the cries of a man in torment",
                    "contextForm": "in torment"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The flies were a terrible torment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Hell as a place of eternal torment"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The sea wailed like a soul in torment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the torment inflicted on a young girl by her mother"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Somehow, with her soul in torment, she managed to get through the day."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "anguish",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great", "emotional", "inner"],
                "verb + torment": ["endure", "suffer", "escape"],
                "preposition": ["in torment"],
                "phrases": ["be released from torment"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtɔːment/",
                "audio": "to/torment/torment__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtɔːrment/",
                "audio": "to/torment/torment__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (as both noun and verb referring to the infliction or suffering of torture): Old French torment (noun), tormenter (verb), from Latin tormentum ‘instrument of torture’, from torquere ‘to twist’."
}