All 9 Uses
torment
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The Pianist
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- I was not so sure as the Germans about that, and to this day I don't know if Rubinstein was really one of the many who had lost their minds because of the torments they had suffered, or was simply playing the fool to escape death.†
Chpt 1torments = causes great mental or physical suffering
- Initially they were conducted clumsily, as if the perpetrators felt ashamed of this new means of tormenting people, and they had not had any practice anyway.†
Chpt 4 *tormenting = causing great mental or physical suffering
- It is not always there before your eyes, tormenting you with reminders of the free life you have lost.†
Chpt 6
- If they had stopped the hunts it was only because they had thought up another and better idea for tormenting us.†
Chpt 7
- They shot people in the stomach to watch their torments.†
Chpt 8torments = causes great mental or physical suffering
- The sun rose higher and higher, blazing down, and we suffered increasing torments of hunger and thirst.†
Chpt 9
- I didn't want to suffer these torments any more.†
Chpt 13
- When I was finally lying on my bed, utterly exhausted by starvation and convinced I was about to die, Szalas would put in an appearance with a little food for me, just enough to keep me alive and give me the strength to continue tormenting myself.†
Chpt 14tormenting = causing great mental or physical suffering
- But what tormented me most was not knowing what was happening in the battle areas, both on the front and among the rebels.†
Chpt 17tormented = caused 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)