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self-torment
[ self-tawr-ment, self- ]
noun
- an act or instance of tormenting oneself, as with worry or guilt.
Other Words From
- self-tor·mented adjective
- self-tor·menting adjective
- self-tor·menting·ly adverb
- self-tor·mentor noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of self-torment1
Example Sentences
Mr. Smith’s subject is revealed to be obsession and self-torment, not least a father’s rabid overinfatuation with a child he cannot possess romantically.
Among the radical or progressive left, those people most likely to take a critical view of American policy and power, this bipolar disorder has produced many varieties of arcane self-torment and infighting over the years.
Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time?
Add self-torment to that list of emotions she understands.
The play’s first line of dialogue — the witch’s query “When shall we three meet again?” — is in this version also its last, as the limp, exhausted man onstage begins his elaborate ritual of self-torment anew.
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