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Definition
to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- Louie had been told that all the men who'd tormented him had been arrested, convicted, and imprisoned in Sugamo.p. 271.9
- He pretended to be tough but was secretly tormented.p. 10.6
- Airmen didn't speak of death, but privately, many were tormented by fear.p. 77.5
- He thought of home, tormented by thoughts of what his disappearance must have done to his mother.p. 186.5
- Watanabe, whom the Aussies called "Whatabastard," had handpicked him, almost certainly to torment him.p. 202.2
- Seeing the destruction of the enemy that had enslaved and tormented them and murdered their friends, the POWs cheered.p. 232.5
- Postwar life was often tormented.p. 252.3
There are no more uses of "torment" in Unbroken - adapted for young adults.
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