Synonyms for torments
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1. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

   I like a cat because it does not disguise its selfishness with any flattering hypocrisies. Its attachment is not to yourself, but to your house. Let it but have food, and a warm lair among the embers, and it heeds not at whose expense. Then it has the spirit to resent aggression. You shall beat your dog, and he will fawn upon you; but a cat never forgives : it has no tender mercies, and it torments before it destroys its prey.

2. Stan Openshaw - Doomsday:

   Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here. . .

3. Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi:

   The prophet Muhammad considered immolation to be reprehensible, He said, ‘Only the lord of fire torments with fire.’ What did they accomplish by burning [the pilot] did they think the war the bombardments would stop?

4. Otto Frank:

   “I still cannot decide whether to tell you more comprehensively of some of my experiences – the main thing is that you know I am alive and well. How the thought always torments me, that I have no idea how Edith and the children are, you no doubt understand. I do however hope to see all well again and I do not want to lose hope.’

5. Susanna Moodie:

   Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.