All 3 Uses of
torment
in
Oliver Twist
- His breast heaved; his attitude was erect; his eye bright and vivid; his whole person changed, as he stood glaring over the cowardly tormentor who now lay crouching at his feet; and defied him with an energy he had never known before.†
Chpt 6 *
- At sight of the dismayed look with which Oliver regarded his tormentors, Master Bates, who was blessed with a lively sense of the ludicrous, fell into another ectasy, more boisterous than the first.†
Chpt 16
- Through all these rapid visions, there ran an undefined, uneasy consciousness of pain, which wearied and tormented him incessantly.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(torment) to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering