tormenting
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]tormenting
- present participle and gerund of torment
Adjective
[edit]tormenting (comparative more tormenting, superlative most tormenting)
- Involving or causing torment.
Synonyms
[edit]Noun
[edit]tormenting (plural tormentings)
- 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.