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Pain with a plot — it keeps going precisely so you keep suffering.
means Severe, prolonged pain or anguish, usually inflicted or endured in a way that feels deliberate and unrelenting.
from From Latin 'tormentum,' a device for hurling missiles or twisting things — rooted in 'torquere,' to twist. The word traveled from siege engines and torture racks (literal twisting machines) into the language of inner anguish — pain imagined as something that wrenches and winds you up, the same way a device wrings tension from rope.
- shares root with
- torque and distort, all about twisting
- original device
- a Roman catapult, not a feeling
- legal cousin
- tort means a civil wrong, same twisted root