tormenting

/T AO1 R M EH0 N T IH0 NG/
verb
  1. 1

    To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)

    “The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.”

noun
  1. 1

    The act by which somebody is tormented.

adjective
  1. 1

    Involving or causing torment.

Synonyms

tormentous

Translate “tormenting” into another language

Choose a language below to open the translator with English selected as the source language.

🇪🇸Spanish🇫🇷French🇩🇪German🇸🇦Arabic🇨🇳Chinese Simplified🇯🇵Japanese🇮🇳Hindi🇧🇷Portuguese🇷🇺Russian🇰🇷Korean🇮🇹Italian🇹🇷Turkish
See all 248+ languages

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/torment, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tormenting

Back to Dictionary