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torment
noun as in severe mental distress
verb as in distress or afflict
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The 30 years since her death have seen a so-far fruitless search for her killer and decades of torment for her family.
Telling the story as a musical is "the best way of accessing the heartache and the torment and the isolation" of the victims, co-writer Jeanie O'Hare told BBC News.
The whipping-sound phone app was well known among students and became a tool of racial torment used to humiliate and degrade Black students during the 2022-2023 school year, the lawsuit alleges.
Throughout the hearing, the court heard of the depravity of McCartney’s actions, children pleading for their torment to stop as he demanded they commit acts of humiliation, abuse and danger.
Zelensky said in his speech on Wednesday that Russia had destroyed all of Ukraine’s thermal power plants and a large part of its hydroelectric capacity as a way to “torment” Ukrainians ahead of winter.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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