Crossword-Solution: TORMENTS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TORMENTS | anagram | SORTMENT |
We have 17 clues for the answer “TORMENTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| They trouble you | 1 answer |
| Frustrates greatly | 1 answer |
| Inflicts mental anguish on | 1 answer |
| Makes miserable | 2 answers |
| Persecutes. | 4 answers |
| Persistently bothers | 4 answers |
| Hectors | 4 answers |
| Haunts | 7 answers |
| ANGUISH TO CAUSE | 10 answers |
| CAUSE EMOTIONAL ANGUISH OR MAKE MISERABLE | 10 answers |
| CRY OF ANGUISH | 10 answers |
| Harasses | 11 answers |
| Bullies | 11 answers |
| Plagues | 12 answers |
| Pesters | 12 answers |
| Needles | 32 answers |
| Anguish | 63 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TORMENTS (5)
Shall we then live thus vile, the race of Heav’n Thus trampl’d, thus expell’d to suffer here Chains & these Torments? better these then worse By my advice; since fate inevitable Subdues us, and Omnipotent Decree, The Victors will.
His pervading and continual hope—a hallucination, which, in the face of all discouragement, and making light of impossibilities, haunts him while he lives, and, I fancy, like the convulsive throes of the cholera, torments him for a brief space after death—is, that finally, and in no long time, by some happy coincidence of circumstances, he shall be restored to office.
And the end is that when they see the people, not of their own accord, but through ignorance, and because they are deceived by informers, seeking to do them wrong, then at last they are forced to become oligarchs in reality; they do not wish to be, but the sting of the drones torments them and breeds revolution in them.
The thieves shall be speedily judged, and not questioned with torments, so that they may be the lustier to feel what the hangman shall work on them to-morrow; then forsooth the show shall be goodly.
Don't you think there is a kind of parable there for the race as a whole? Have you ever met a man without wondering what shining sorrows he hides from the world, what contrast between vision and accomplishment torments him? Behind every smiling mask is there not some cryptic grimace of pain? Henry Adams puts it tersely.
Quotes with TORMENTS (3)
On the surface, I was calm: in secret, without really admitting it, I was waiting for something. Her return? How could I have been waiting for that? We all know that we are material creatures, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and not even the power of all our feelings combined can defeat those laws. All we can do is detest them. The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and…
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1989–2023).