torment
verb (used with object)
to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain.
had tormented
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past perfectof torment.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In painful detail, she described the splitting headaches, body aches, chills, high fevers and hallucinations that had tormented her for days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Mr Lowbridge previously told the BBC that the disappearance had "tormented" Gary, who died in 2012 "never knowing what happened to his dad".
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2024
Posts by the person calling themself Meachen's daughter said that Meachen's grieving family wanted no part of the book world that had tormented Meachen.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2023
With his presumed death putting an end to that promise, Joyce finally decided to move out of the cursed town that had tormented her family so relentlessly.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2022
Then, all accumulated in the rip of a claw, he felt again all the terror that had tormented him in his life.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
