All 10 Uses of
torment
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- Till that moment he had never been into a tavern, but now he felt giddy and was tormented by a burning thirst.†
Chpt 1.1tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- In that letter she reproached him with great heat and indignation for the baseness of his behaviour in regard to Marfa Petrovna, reminding him that he was the father and head of a family and telling him how infamous it was of him to torment and make unhappy a defenceless girl, unhappy enough already.†
Chpt 1.3torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- He worried and tormented himself trying to remember, moaned, flew into a rage, or sank into awful, intolerable terror.†
Chpt 2.3tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- Will you ever leave off tormenting me?†
Chpt 2.5 *tormenting = causing great mental or physical suffering
- "Mother, you are quite pale, don't distress yourself, darling," said Dounia caressing her, then with flashing eyes she added: "He ought to be happy at seeing you, and you are tormenting yourself so."†
Chpt 3.2
- But at the same time he knew now and knew for certain that, although it filled her with dread and suffering, yet she had a tormenting desire to read and to read to him that he might hear it, and to read now whatever might come of it!†
Chpt 4.4
- Another, much more important anxiety tormented him—it concerned himself, but in a different, more vital way.†
Chpt 6.3tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- This idea sometimes even tormented his dreams, but it had never presented itself so vividly to him as on his way to Svidrigailov.†
Chpt 6.3
- Don't torment me.†
Chpt 6.5torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- She did not scream, but she fixed her eyes on her tormentor and watched every movement he made.†
Chpt 6.5tormentor = someone who causes great mental or physical suffering