Both Uses
torment
in
I Stand Here Ironing
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- I stand here ironing, and what you asked me moves tormented back and forth with the iron.†
*tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- She tormented herself enough about not looking like the others, there was enough of the unsureness, the having to be conscious of words before you speak, the constant caring—what are they thinking of me?†
Definitions:
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(1)
(torment) to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)