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torments

  • plural of torment.
  • present tense form of torment (3rd person singular).

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How that thought that Nanna hates me Torments my breast! 

From The Death of Balder by Borrow, George Henry

Alas! that neither bonds nor vows   Can certify possession; Torments me still the fear that love   Died in its last expression.

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Support me, mighty God, To pass the Terrors of this dismal Hour, All dark with Horrors, Torments, Pains, and Death!

From Ponteach The Savages of America by Moses, Montrose Jonas

Zeus’ daughter with fell might Torments me sore.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

Whose Misery, Trouble, Famine, Colde, and other Torments by him sustayned, during the sayd time 397 if it should bee declared, perhaps woulde seeme incredible.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William