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torments

  • plural
    of torment.
    torment
    verb (used with object)
    to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain.
  • present tense form
    of torment (3rd person singular).
    torment
    verb (used with object)
    to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain.

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It’s drawn from Ionesco’s “Fragments of a Journal,” and effectively establishes the sad and searching state of mind that torments Berenger, but also his centrality to Ionesco’s tragicomedy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

The scene in which he torments his son by bouncing a basketball against his head was spoofed by Mike Myers' Dr Evil in the second Austin Powers film.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

After spending time in the divine abyss, we’re back in reality, ripped from the stratosphere and placed into one of life’s most mundane torments: the hygienist’s chair.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025

Solange’s disgusting behavior as she torments her housemates is what the Eggers seem to be getting at.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2024

And he turned back to his own writing—probably a sermon about hell’s torments, one of which was writing a short essay in thirty minutes.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt