tormenting
noun1
The act by which somebody is tormented.
- If Laura really entertained the hope she mentioned, she was miserably disappointed; for Lady Pelham remitted not a jot of her tormentings.1832, Mary Brunton, Self Control, page 335:
tormenting
adj1
Involving or causing torment.
- Synonyms
- tormentous
- Derived terms
- tormentingly, tormentingness