All 6 Uses of
torment
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- A non-com, can torment a private, a lieutenant a non-com, a captain a lieutenant, until he goes mad.
p. 44.3torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- 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.
p. 180.9 *torment = cause suffering to
- In whirling confusion my thoughts hum in my brain—I hear the warning voice of my mother, I see the Russians with the flowing beards leaning against the wire fence, I have a bright picture of a canteen with stools, of a cinema in Valenciennes; tormented, terrified, in my imagination I see the grey, implacable muzzle of a rifle which moves noiselessly before me whichever way I try to turn my head.
p. 210.8tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- Now I see that he is tormenting me, he is merely raking about in the wound and looking up surreptitiously at me over his glasses.
p. 243.6tormenting = causing great mental or physical suffering
- All the same the woman is a tormentor, she is going to force me to say it.
p. 246.8tormentor = someone who causes great mental or physical suffering
- Wild, tormenting rumours of an armistice and peace are in the air, they lay hold on our hearts and make the return to the front harder than ever.
p. 285.5tormenting = causing great mental or physical suffering