Syllables World: Mastering Syllable Identification

How many syllables in Torment?

torment has 2 syllables

tor-ment

To cause severe physical or mental suffering to someone.

The first syllable 'tor' has one vowel 'o' and one consonant 't'. The second syllable 'ment' has one vowel 'e' and two consonants 'm' and 'n'.

Verb

The bully would torment his classmates by calling them names and pushing them around.

The dog would repeatedly bark and torment the cat next door.
He couldn't concentrate on his work because the pain in his leg was tormenting him.
The thought of failing the test was tormenting her.
The prisoner was tormented by the guards in the cell.
The haunted house was said to torment anyone who dared to enter after dark.
The constant ringing in his ears was tormenting him.
The monster in the story would torment the villagers every night.
Her fear of heights tormented her during the plane ride.
The coach would torment the players during practice to toughen them up.
The ghost was said to torment anyone who entered the abandoned mansion.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. - Charles de Montesquieu
The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think. - James Branch Cabell
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. - John Calvin
I have never been hurt by what I have not said. - Calvin Coolidge
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. - Fyodor Dostoevsky