tormenting
/tɔːˈmɛntɪŋ
/adjective
Inflicting severe physical or mental suffering: peace from his tormenting thoughts tormenting demons...
- Those tormenting red eyes were hovering above me.
- Her struggle is presented as though it were a tormenting process of personal redemption.
- He let out tormenting cries.
Derivatives
tormentingly
/ adverb ...- The river rises to swallow everything around; its rise painfully, tormentingly gradual like a torturous, emaciating death.
- He was tormentingly tense and uneasy.
- "Wakie, wakie." he said tormentingly.
- roughness length
- rough oak
- roughometer
- roughout
- rough passage
- rough plate
- rough pâté
- rough ray
- rough rendering
- rough rice
- rough-ride
- rough-rider
- Rough Rider
- rough-riding
- rough-scaled lizard
- rough scruff
- rough scuff
- rough seal
- rough service
- roughshod
- rough shoot
- rough-shooting
- rough skin
- rough-skinned
- rough-skinned plum