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tormenttor‧ment2 /tɔːˈment $ tɔːr-/ verb [transitive]   VERB TABLEtorment |
| Present | I, you, we, they | torment | | he, she, it | torments | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | tormented | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have tormented | | he, she, it | has tormented | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had tormented | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will torment | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have tormented |
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| Present | I | am tormenting | | he, she, it | is tormenting | | you, we, they | are tormenting | | Past | I, he, she, it | was tormenting | | you, we, they | were tormenting | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been tormenting | | he, she, it | has been tormenting | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been tormenting | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be tormenting | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been tormenting |
- Jealousy, fear, and suspicion tormented Harriet.
- My older sister loved to torment me.
- He was either out and hadn't switched on the answering machine or he was tormenting her by ignoring the telephone.
- It might not be all that much, but it might be almost bearable if they didn't keep tormenting him.
- Some years ago a thought like that began to torment me.
- Sometimes, too, he was tormented by jealousy.
- They tormented him with a plan to bypass theaters and just show it on television.
- This is the problem that torments me.
 Seth was tormented by feelings of guilt.2to deliberately treat someone cruelly by annoying them or hurting them SYN torture: The older boys would torment him whenever they had the chance.—tormentor noun [countable] |