Both Uses
torment
in
Things Fall Apart
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- In that way she will elude her wicked tormentor and break its evil cycle of birth and death.†
p. 77.9 *tormentor = someone who causes great mental or physical suffering
- You buried it in the ground somewhere so that you can die and return again to torment your mother.†
p. 81.1torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
Definitions:
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(1)
(torment) to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)