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Self-torment   /sˈɛlftˈɔrmˌɛnt/   Listen
Self-torment

noun
1.
Self-imposed distress.  Synonym: self-torture.





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"Self-torment" Quotes from Famous Books



... forecast, and perhaps it was as well the girl did not wake. She would only have had a needless fright, to see her mother, haggard with self-torment, by her bedside at that hour. So Rosalind got her full look at the rich coils of black hair that framed up the unconscious face, that for all its unconsciousness had on it the contentment of an amused dreamer, at the white ivory skin it set ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan


Words linked to "Self-torment" :   distress, hurt, self-torture, suffering


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