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tormenting 音标拼音: [t'ɔrm ,ɛntɪŋ] Tormenting \ Tor* ment" ing\, a. Causing torment; as, a tormenting dream. -- { Tor* ment" ing* ly}, adv. [ 1913 Webster]
Torment \ Tor* ment"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { tormented}; p. pr. & vb. n. { tormenting}.] [ OF. tormenter, F. tourmenter.] 1. To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. " Art thou come hither to torment us before our time? " -- Matt. viii. 29. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. [ 1913 Webster] Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. -- Matt. viii. 6. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances. [ Colloq.] [ 1913 Webster] 4. To put into great agitation. [ R.] "[ They], soaring on main wing, tormented all the air." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 77 Moby Thesaurus words for " tormenting": acute, afflictive, aggravating, agonizing, annoying, atrocious, biting, bothering, bothersome, chafing, consuming, cramping, cruel, desolating, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, excruciating, fretting, galling, gnawing, grave, griping, harassing, hard, harrowing, harsh, heartbreaking, heartrending, heartsickening, heartwounding, hurtful, hurting, importunate, importune, irking, irksome, irritating, painful, paroxysmal, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, piercing, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, poignant, provoking, pungent, racking, rending, severe, sharp, shooting, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, stabbing, stinging, tearing, teasing, tiresome, torturing, torturous, troublesome, troubling, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, worrisome, worrying
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