All 5 Uses

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Flags of Our Fathers
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But after God had not intervened, Harlon made up his mind that it was his fate to do his duty—never mind the torment he felt over the moral implications of battle.†
Chpt 5.

torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
It is stalking an ocean, rounding the curve of the earth, to crush its tormentor.†
Chpt 6. *

tormentor = someone who causes great mental or physical suffering
And yet the Americans did inflict damage that hellish first morning—by the same excruciating means they would continue to inflict it for thirty-six days, until all the 22,000 defenders were wiped out: by exposing themselves to fire, charging the fortified blockhouses and cave entrances, and shooting or incinerating their tormentors at close range.†
Chpt 7.
But Ira's next remarks perhaps touched the true source of his very legitimate torment: "Most of our buddies are gone," Hayes observed.†
Chpt 17.

torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
He quickly returned home to a routine that never varied: menial work, the bottle, the police, the jocular but tormenting question from his fellow Pimas: "How's the hero, Ira?"†
Chpt 19.

tormenting = causing great mental or physical suffering

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