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to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- He let what he judged to be ten minutes go by, tormented all the while by the fear that some accident — a sudden draught blowing across his desk, for instance — would betray him.p. 79.2
- Or to bang his head against the wall, to kick over the table, and hurl the inkpot through the window — to do any violent or noisy or painful thing that might black out the memory that was tormenting him.p. 63.9
- Lunch in the hot, crowded, noise-filled canteen was torment.p. 108.5
- Winston did not look at him again, but the tormented, skull-like face was as vivid in his mind as though it had been straight in front of his eyes.p. 235.0
- He was the tormentor, he was the protector, he was the inquisitor, he was the friend.p. 244.1
- A world of fear and treachery is torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself.p. 267.1
There are no more uses of "torment" in 1984 by Orwell.
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