Tormenting

Verb

1. Present participle of torment

Full definition of tormenting

Adjective

1. Involving or causing torment.

Synonyms

• tormentous

Noun

1. The act by which somebody is tormented.
• 1832, Mary Brunton, Self Control (page 335)If Laura really entertained the hope she mentioned, she was miserably disappointed; for Lady Pelham remitted not a jot of her tormentings.