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/tˈɔrmˌɛntɪd/ Listen

verb

Torment v. t. (past & past part. tormented; pres. part. tormenting)

To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. " Art thou come hither to torment us before our time? "

To pain; to distress; to afflict. "Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented."

To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances. (Colloq.)

To put into great agitation. (R.) "(They), soaring on main wing, tormented all the air."

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Etymology of 'Tormented'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... they insisted on being naked, and there was nothing which they longed for more eagerly than to throw themselves into cold water. And many of those who had no one to look after them actually plunged into the cisterns, for they were tormented by unceasing thirst, which was not in the least assuaged whether they drank little or much. They could not sleep; a restlessness which ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece • Various

... replaced them. And so publicity in the modern earth has become confusedly unsympathetic for everyone. Classes are intolerable to classes and sets to sets, contact provokes aggressions, comparisons, persecutions and discomforts, and the subtler people are excessively tormented by a sense of observation, unsympathetic always and often hostile. To live without some sort of segregation from the general mass is impossible in exact proportion to one's ...

— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells

... everything is drenched with rain; the brambles and mosses are full of water; the least puff of wind would drown many of them. We must wait a little while. I know what is the matter: they feel dull, they want to work; they are tormented at the idea of devouring their honey instead of making it. But I cannot afford to lose them. Many of the hives are weak—they would starve in winter. We will see what the weather is ...

— The Man-Wolf and Other Tales • Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian

... did not confine my lodging to it, but often reposed in thick cane-brakes, to avoid the savages, who, I believe, often visited my camp, but fortunately for me, in my absence. In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger, and death. How unhappy such a situation for a man tormented with fear, which is vain if no danger comes, and if it does, only augments the pain. It was my happiness to be destitute of this afflicting passion, with which I had the greatest reason to be affected. The prowling wolves diverted ...

— The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone • John Filson

... the only standing horse and went in the direction of the sound. Then followed an interminable silence. I hallooed, but got no answer. The wildest fears for Nimrod's safety tormented me. He had fallen into a gully, the horse had thrown him, he ...

— A Woman Tenderfoot • Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

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