tormenting
present participle oftorment
torment
verb[T]
uk/tɔːˈment/us/tɔːrˈment/tocauseapersonoranimaltosufferorworry:
Theanimalsare tormentedmercilesslybyfliesandmosquitoes.
Thecamerafocusedon agroupof women whosefaceswere tormentedby/with(=showedthat they weresuffering)grief.
It tormented me allday- had I said thewrongthing andhurtherfeelings?
Treating people or animals badly
- abuser
- anti-harassment
- at the hands ofsomeoneidiom
- batten
- batten onsomeone
- ill-treat
- ill-treatment
- ill-used
- impose
- inflict
- pick onsomeone
- prey
- prey onsomething
- putsomeonethroughsomething
- put upon
- tyrannical
- tyrannize
- tyranny
- uncared for
- use
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tormenting
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Towards the end, the viola presented a memorably ardent cantabile rendering of the keening lament, brutally interrupted bytormentingtutti interjections.
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Neighbours are spreading nasty rumours and aretormentingher.
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Freud, after all, understood well that mosttormentingwas the battle of the self against the self, the battle against and within - the battle to transcend - one's own subjectivity.
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There are certain variations in which thistormentingdilemma has presented itself.
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What is the real nature of thistormentingquestion of proliferation?
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These aretormentingquestions, which must be answered and the answers are in the vision that we want to serve.
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These are some of the questions which aretormentingthe minds of so many people.
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We should give these powers withouttormentingourselves as to hypothetical misuse or folly.
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I understand the difficultiestormentinghim tonight, but my contribution will reveal a totally opposite point of view.
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I do not want to give the name of this woman because she is trying very hard to come through this terrible,tormentingexperience.
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An immense amount of police time is wasted on cases that never go to court, which is frustrating for the police andtormentingfor the victim.
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What is the moral difference between the cruelty inflicted on domestic animals, which is not lawful, and thetormentingof wild animals, which is currently lawful?
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But there is alsotormentingmany of us a moral dilemma, which increases rather than diminishes with each month that passes and every new destructive achievement of science.
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It slowly digests the souls of those it devours, keeping it satisfied andtormentingthose whom it devoured.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The only meal left is a precocious worm with a mischievous attitude who delights in teasing andtormentingthe hungry rooster.
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- holding area
- holding-area
- holding cell
- holding company
- holding-company
- holding cost
- holding-cost
- holding facility
- holding operation
- holding-operation
- holding pattern
- holding-pattern
- holding period
- holding-period
- holdings
- holding tank
- holding-tank
- hold-in-high-low-repute
- hold it!
- hold-it
- hold-it-that-against
- hold it/that against sb
- hold-it-that-against-sb
- hold it/that against someone
- hold-keep-at-bay