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Definition
to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering- She enjoys tormenting others.
tormenting = causing great mental or physical suffering
- She concealed her torment.
- Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.Elie Wiesel (Nobel Acceptance Speech)
- I sometimes felt a twinge of remorse, when passing by the old place, at ever having taken part in what must have been sheer torment to Arthur Radley— what reasonable recluse wants children peeping through his shutters, delivering greetings on the end of a fishing-pole, wandering in his collards at night?Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- We were tormented with hunger.Elie Wiesel -- Night
- People in the house were tormented almost to death by his incessant fumbling cornet practice.Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- What tormented Ivan Ilych most was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dyingLeo Tolstoy -- The Death of Ivan Ilych
- From that day on I stopped tormenting Buffo,Jerry Spinelli -- Milkweed
- I know you want to comfort me, but don't you see, you torment me far more than if you told me the truth? I cannot bear the uncertainty.Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
- "I hope this pleases you" (turning her back on him); "I hope your eyes are not tormented now."Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
- ...who knows what fears tormented his child's mind?Kamala Markandaya -- Nectar in a Sieve
- Flattering me into tormenting them because he ... loved viciousness.John Gardner -- Grendel
- He spent the night awake, tormented by the pain of his sores.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Up to this moment jealousy had not been one of his torments; now it suddenly gnawed at his heart.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
- Do not torment me:William Shakespeare -- The Tempest
- If we don't want him tormenting us with algebra or Irish grammar all we have to do is ask him a question about America and that gets him so excited he might go on for the whole day.Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
- For months she'd been tormented by the thought that Pedro had lied to her on his wedding day, that he'd told her he loved her just so she wouldn't suffer, or that as time went on, he really had grown to love Rosaura.Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate
- "Son," he said to Jem, "I'm going to tell you something and tell you one time: stop tormenting that man."Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- How so reasonable a creature could live in peril of everlasting torment was incomprehensible.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- When we were small, Jem and I confined our activities to the southern neighborhood, but when I was well into the second grade at school and tormenting Boo Radley became passe, the business section of Maycomb drew us frequently up the street past the real property of Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
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torment = great suffering
tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
tormented = made to suffer
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tormenting = causing great suffering (in)
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torments = something causing great mental suffering
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torment = great suffering
tormenting = causing suffering