Difference between Torment and Anguish

What is the difference between Torment and Anguish?

Torment as a noun is a catapult or other kind of war-engine. while Anguish as a noun is extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

Torment

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A catapult or other kind of war-engine. Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture. Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)

Example sentence: How delicious is pleasure after torment!

Anguish

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To suffer pain.To cause to suffer pain.

Example sentence: My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

We hope you now know whether to use Torment or Anguish in your sentence.

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