Help and Torment

Help

Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

Torment is an antonym for help.

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

Torment

Torment verb - To cause persistent suffering to.
Usage example: he was tormented by nightmares about the accident

Help is an antonym for torment in topics: severe mental distress, be or make very upset.

Nearby Words: tormented, tormenting, tormentor

How words are described

emotional emotional help emotional torment
physical physical help physical torment
best best help best torment
similar similar help similar torment
Other adjectives: great, personal, new, mental, psychological, final, further, extra, magical.

Common collocations

girl help girl torment girl
friend help friend torment friend
humanity help humanity torment humanity
man help man torment man
Other words: people, children, family, someone, team, world, mother, brother, anyone, everyone, humans, kids, friends, heroes.

Both words in one sentence

  • Western Animation / Batman: The Animated Series After a whole episode of torment, he seemingly snaps and confronts the Joker, frightening him so much that the Joker calls Batman for help.
  • He did all of this so he could psychologically torment the sympathetic and almost saint-like Kenshin, who's tried to do his best ever since Tomoe's death to atone for his crimes and help others.
  • Of course he wants to side with his fellow captives and escape from this torment, he is always there to help them out with all their fact finding and scheming.
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