- present participle of torment.
tormenting
Example Sentences
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Owner Tara Zaman said they targeted the shop several times, "taking things" and "taunting" and "tormenting" her staff.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
Fofana and Allan Saint-Maximin, on in place of Edouard and Said, continued the tormenting of PFC as they combined to add two goals in stoppage time.
From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026
They forced Snell to labor through 29 pitches, tormenting him with an array of foul balls and refusing to go down easily.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025
He predicts that in America, authoritarianism would “degrade men without tormenting them. ... The will of man is not shattered but softly softened, bent, and guided.”
From Salon ● May 17, 2025
The clouds were sitting on the land; they squeezed, produced moment by moment this close, tormenting heat.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
