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Definition of tormenting : 1. Causing torment; as, a tormenting dream.
2. of Torment

Synonyms:

pain, torturous

disagreeable, uncomfortable, anguishing, horrendous, acute, besetting, bothersome, hurtful, wrenching, severe, gnawing, miserable, insufferable, offensive, odious, cramping, bitter, excruciating, aggravating, throbbing, torturing, troublesome, withering, biting, piercing, cruel, annoying, aching, woeful, painful, grievous, irksome, unbearable, trying, smarting, oppressive, harrowing, arduous, irritating, stinging, sore, crushing, burdensome, agonizing, chafing, stabbing, unpleasant, cutting, distressful, grueling, inflaming

foreboding, browbeating, intimidating, frightening, scary, looming, harassing, threatening, bullying, forewarning, warning, scaring, admonishing, hinting, bulldozing

racking, hurting, stitching, suffering, distressing, paining, discomforting, afflicting

pestering, envenoming, arousing, antagonizing, infuriating, baiting, exacerbating, upsetting, perturbing, badgering, harrying, teasing, irking, fretting, disturbing, bothering, rankling, discomposing, bedeviling, peeving, needling, hassling, troubling, vexing, exasperating, enraging, grating, nagging

Usage examples:

• Only picture to yourself the vast amount of burning love and tormenting longing that can be contained in so large a body as mine! - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers.
• Fate had deprived him of everything but seeing the child at a distance, the power of tormenting himself, of longing, and of comforting himself with memories. - "Iermola", Joseph Ignatius Kraszewksi.
• When she told him that she had none to give him he had devoted his time to tormenting the crew of the " Merry Maid" in order to be revenged on his sister. - "Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid", Amy D. V. Chalmers.