Read full poem →The insuperable sill,
Nursing his tormented pride,
Turned his head to neither side,
Dictionary Entry
To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)
In a Sentence
“The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. tormented
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Poetry examples for “tormented”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Blessed, who brought to gracious birth
The sweet-souled Saviour of a man-tormented earth.
Read full poem →How hot the sheets are! His skin is tormented with pricks,
and over him sticks, and never moves, an eye. It lights the sky with blood,
Read full poem →I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Read full poem →I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Read full poem →With a slattern for a wife, and poor Minerva, my daughter,
Whom you tormented and drove to death.
So I crept, crept, like a snail through the days
Read full poem →the vulture should cease, so that he tore not the liver of
Tityus the king, which before therewith tormented him.
And all the punishments of the inhabitants of hell were sus-
Read full poem →Therefore still their eyeballs shrink tormented
Back into their brains, because on their sense