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torment
noun as in severe mental distress
verb as in distress or afflict
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A victim of the Rochdale child grooming gangs killed herself after years of torment over the scandal, a coroner has ruled.
Later in his career, that notion held true for his performance as Our Man, a tormented sailor adrift at sea in “All is Lost.”
The 65-year-old said the torment of not knowing what has happened to him has been "soul-destroying".
"The government gradually blocked people from making a living independently, and the very act of living became a daily torment," she testified to researchers.
If his tormented characters don’t die by the film’s end, any freedom or peace they’re allowed comes at a price just as steep.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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