All 5 Uses of
torment
in
Great Expectations
- And the mere sight of the torment, with his fishy eyes and mouth open, his sandy hair inquisitively on end, and his waistcoat heaving with windy arithmetic, made me vicious in my reticence.†
Chpt 9 *
- There was no discrepancy of years between us to remove her far from me; we were of nearly the same age, though of course the age told for more in her case than in mine; but the air of inaccessibility which her beauty and her manner gave her, tormented me in the midst of my delight, and at the height of the assurance I felt that our patroness had chosen us for one another.†
Chpt 29
- They watch you, misrepresent you, write letters about you (anonymous sometimes), and you are the torment and the occupation of their lives.†
Chpt 33
- Sending her out to attract and torment and do mischief, Miss Havisham sent her with the malicious assurance that she was beyond the reach of all admirers, and that all who staked upon that cast were secured to lose.†
Chpt 38
- I saw in this that I, too, was tormented by a perversion of ingenuity, even while the prize was reserved for me.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(torment) to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering