Both Uses
torment
in
Wringer, by Jerry Spinelli
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- They continued to snowball, treestump and otherwise torment her on the way to and from school.†
p. 108.6torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- As for the Beans Boys, as they sometimes called themselves, by spring they had tired of tormenting Dorothy and pretty much ignored her.†
p. 124.2 *tormenting = causing 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)