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Meanings of torment in English
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Examples for "worrying"
Examples for "worrying"
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Sunak's focus on the labour market is welcome given worrying survey data.
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They added: London is at a very worrying tipping point right now.
3
However, a senior official at the ministry said the report was worrying.
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A surgeon had described it as neither a major nor worrying problem.
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The level of disrespect for the rule of law is absolutely worrying.
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I said 'OK' so he would stop badgering me, she wrote.
2
The friend added: Coleen's had enough of Becky badgering her for the evidence.
3
We kept badgering Mother to let us go back to our cousins' house.
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Or are they talking about financial incentives, veiled threats, bargaining and relentless badgering?
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There was no humor in Hans' voice, no trace of badgering.
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He's too wild-toofull of what Hagar Warren calls bedevilment.
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Scotland is the home of weird, uncanny creatures, who take lovely shapes for the bedevilment of poor weak souls.
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Madam, - Permit me to wish Derek Crozier well on achieving 60 years of bedevilment of the Irish crossword addict.
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She had helped him- Ihadhis own word for it that at Clockborough her bedevilment of the voters had really put him in.
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It happened that incidentally I gave some facts about the bedevilment of the public's meat-supply, and the public really did care about that.
Usage of torment in English
1
People are quite able to torment one another without aid of magic.
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The outstretched planes of the Cross swept up as though in torment.
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Determined to continue, Liam had no choice but to stop the torment.
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But in the torment of Hell shall the wicked remain for ever:
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The days before she saw him again her body was in torment.
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Not in euthanasia, but in torment of mind should the guilty atone.
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No longer would she torment them with her new strangeness, her apartness.
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He was in his own way; he was a torment to himself.
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He tossed that night in his bed in a torment of indecision.
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As he topped the rise, she gave a great wail of torment.
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But why should it be my responsibility to save you from torment?
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Those signs outside were just one physical manifestation of my inward torment.
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It may mean extinction of species; but it will notmean their torment.
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How she dreamed of hearing those words that would end her torment.
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They are hovering between the idea of extinction and that of torment.
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Religious places are always places of refuge as well as of torment.
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Torment through the time
Torment across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common
Ireland
Less common