Слово "torment". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

I was utterly alone, but this time my solitude was not a torment; there was something mystical about it.

We drifted famishing, and, after our water had come to an end, tormented by an intolerable thirst, for eight days altogether.

A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but MORE merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain.

It became his chief delight in life, as it became White Fang’s chief torment.

That's the torment of it.

You were born, I think, to be my torment: my last hour is racked by the recollection of a deed which, but for you, I should never have been tempted to commit.”

            Zoya had another example, even closer to her than Maria's. She had seen the rotten lives of her own father and mother. She'd watched them quarrelling and making it up, separating to live in different towns and then coming together again, tormenting each other all their lives.

"You saw that Neville didn't want you tormenting an innocent boy on behalf of the Longbottoms. This failed to move you.

I was tormented by the contrast between my idea and my handiwork: in each case I had imagined something which I was quite powerless to realise.”

Winston did not look at him again, but the tormented, skull-like face was as vivid in his mind as though it had been straight in front of his eyes.

So, he tended the flower. So, too, she began very quickly to torment him with her vanity — which was, if the truth be known, a little difficult to deal with.

He 'pears to know just how long he can torment me before I get my dander up, and he knows if he can make out to put me off for a minute or make me laugh, it's all down again and I can't hit him a lick.