All 4 Uses of
torment
in
The Call of the Wild
- Dazed, suffering intolerable pain from throat and tongue, with the life half throttled out of him, Buck attempted to face his tormentors.†
Chpt 1
- More tormentors, Buck decided, for they were evil-looking creatures, ragged and unkempt; and he stormed and raged at them through the bars.†
Chpt 1
- For two days and nights he neither ate nor drank, and during those two days and nights of torment, he accumulated a fund of wrath that boded ill for whoever first fell foul of him.†
Chpt 1
- That was the man, Buck divined, the next tormentor, and he hurled himself savagely against the bars.†
Chpt 1 *
Definition:
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(torment) to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering