remedy vs torment

remedy

verb
  • To provide or serve as a remedy for. 

noun
  • Something that corrects or counteracts. 

  • A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease. 

  • The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc. 

  • The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong. 

torment

verb
  • To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.) 

noun
  • Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental. 

  • Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture. 

How often have the words remedy and torment occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )