All 6 Uses of
torment
in
Grendel
- Stars, spattered out through lifeless night from end to end, like jewels scattered in a dead king's grave, tease, torment my wits toward meaningful patterns that do not exist.†
Chpt 1torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- I listened, huddled in the darkness, tormented, mistrustful.†
Chpt 4tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- Yet even now my mind was tormented by images.†
Chpt 4
- Teasing, tormenting, as cold as a dead hand closing on my wrist.†
Chpt 4tormenting = causing great mental or physical suffering
- Flattering me into tormenting them because he ... loved viciousness.
Chpt 5 *tormenting = causing great suffering (in)
- I should have captured him, teased him, tormented him, made a fool of him.†
Chpt 10tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering