torment
verb (used with object)
to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain.
will torment
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future tenseof torment.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, Carla said: "The knock on the door in the middle of the night will torment me for the rest of my life."
From BBC ● Feb. 29, 2024
I recognize that schools have often opted for secrecy out of fear that parents will torment a child who comes out to them as trans, or possibly even kick them out of the house.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023
Readers with overactive superegos that will torment them if they spend the “extra” time of quarantine reading anything but classics may be struggling with War and Peace right now.
From Slate ● May 22, 2020
And he will torment Ghost Rider with all the strength that the then 66-year-old star of Thomas and the Magic Railroad can muster.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2011
My changeable and restless nature will torment me to the end.
From Amiel's Journal by Mrs. Humphry Ward
