All 9 Uses
torment
in
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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- We three girls were nearly paralyzed from our physical torment, yet our trial had barely begun.†
Chpt 3 *torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- Her torment was great, but it was not the worst I would see in my lifetime.†
Chpt 3
- They were a torment.†
Chpt 9
- My torment was great, but I summoned the same discipline that had gotten me through my footbinding, the epidemic, and the winter in the mountains to help me.†
Chpt 17
- When memories of Snow Flower's love continued to torment me, I constructed a flower tower like the one we had built to ward off Beautiful Moon's spirit.†
Chpt 17
- I had to excise this new ghost, prevent her from ever again preying on my mind or tormenting me with broken promises of deep-heart love.†
Chpt 17tormenting = causing great mental or physical suffering
- My mind was already tormented enough imagining their whispered secrets and physical intimacies.†
Chpt 17tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- I wrapped my arms around her, trying to bring warmth to her shriveled form and alleviate the torment that so wracked her body that she whimpered even in her dreams.†
Chpt 18torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- This torment has gone on too long.†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(torment) to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)