All 7 Uses of
torment
in
Unbroken - adapted for young adults
- He pretended to be tough but was secretly tormented.†
p. 10.6tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- 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 *torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- Seeing the destruction of the enemy that had enslaved and tormented them and murdered their friends, the POWs cheered.†
p. 232.5tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- Postwar life was often tormented.†
p. 252.3
- Louie had been told that all the men who'd tormented him had been arrested, convicted, and imprisoned in Sugamo.†
p. 271.9