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Time to treat mentor's anguish (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

torment

'anguish' is the definition.
(tormenting is a kind of anguishing)

'time to treat mentor's' is the wordplay.
'time' becomes 't'.
'to treat' indicates anagramming the letters.
'mentor' with letters rearranged gives 'orment'.
't'+'orment'='TORMENT'

(Other definitions for torment that I've seen before include "Extreme mental or physical distress" , "Severe physical or mental suffering" , "Tease unkindly" , "Inflict pain on - pester" , "Pester or tease unmercifully" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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