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Meanings of tormented in English

Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain.

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        Tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears.

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              Usage of tormented in English
              1
              Young adult Americans, particularly graduates, are tormented by that unspeakable tyrant: success.
              The Irish Times
              2
              For a moment, perfectly balanced between their piercing points, he writhed, tormented.
              The lord of the rings
              3
              Memories of the famine of the siege of '70 tormented the imagination.
              The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
              4
              He had seen him being tormented by something ever since leaving England.
              The Darkening Sea
              5
              The thought of Delia arrested-refusedbail-ina police cell-orin prison-tormented him.
              Delia Blanchflower
              6
              And he tormented Raven till the latter flew away in a rage.
              A Treasury of Eskimo Tales
              7
              Kane has tormented New Jersey with nine goals in 21 career games.
              Reuters
              8
              Rodin is of this tormented choir; he is master of its psychology.
              Promenades of an Impressionist
              9
              Her sensuous nature was tormented by the thought of the last moment.
              The Marriage of William Ashe
              10
              Mr. Park was also again tormented by the curiosity of the Moors.
              Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, ...
              11
              His desire of life tormented him in a paroxysm of agonising remorse.
              Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River
              12
              The other races might've forgotten those tormented years, but changelings never would.
              Stroke of Enticement
              13
              Her prettiness tormented him; therefore he hated her, and everything about her.
              The Divine Fire
              14
              Think of how even the saints were tormented by demons and temptations.
              The Bride of Dreams
              15
              He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.
              The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 / A Magaz...
              16
              She had tormented him with it all the way to her home.
              Dust
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