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Definition
to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- At dinner, an older boy named Vic Morgeroff had tormented Reynie for using the word "enjoyable" to describe the book he was reading.p. 5.2
- Instead he stared miserably at Jackson, and then at his other tormentor, Martina, who seemed exceedingly pleased with herself.p. 210.9
- "If you don't mind my asking, sir, why did the other children torment you?"p. 240.8
- And if I did, she would make it easier for me — by not tormenting me.p. 299.9
- All day long he had been tormented by his mistake.p. 405.3
There are no more uses of "torment" in The Mysterious Benedict Society.
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