torments

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great mental suffering and unhappiness:

go through torments Nothing can describe the torments we went through while we were waiting for news.

Few poems convey the torments of war so effectively.

He describes in vivid detail the torments of not knowing whether she was faithful to him.

Rarely had she suffered such torments.

Her first novel was all about the torments of adolescence.

She was no stranger to the torments of unrequited love.