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self-torment

[ self-tawr-ment, self- ]

noun

  1. an act or instance of tormenting oneself, as with worry or guilt.


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Other Words From

  • self-tor·mented adjective
  • self-tor·menting adjective
  • self-tor·menting·ly adverb
  • self-tor·mentor noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of self-torment1

First recorded in 1640–50
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Example Sentences

She would only have had a needless fright, to see her mother, haggard with self-torment, by her bedside at that hour.

To encourage such fantasy was the idlest self-torment, but he had gone too far in this form of indulgence.

With a saint's capacity for self-torment, Madeleine wielded the scourge over her own back until the blood came.

Then there came over him a spirit of defiance, of self-torment, of ill-humour, and he felt tempted to throw up the whole thing.

Charity listened with a greed of self-torment like a fanatic penitent.

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