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Definition of Tormenting
1. a. Causing torment; as, a tormenting dream.
Definition of Tormenting
1. Verb. (present participle of torment) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tormenting
1. torment [v] - See also: torment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tormenting
Literary usage of Tormenting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen, Reginald Brimley Johnson (1892)
""—Those were the IJ words; in them lay the tormenting ideas which Emma could not
get rid of, and which constituted the real misery of the business to her. ..."
2. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1847)
"Thus do we rise ill sight» to see, And 'gainst ourselves to prophecy ; When the
prophetic fear of things A more tormenting mischief brings, ..."
3. New English and Italian Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary by John Millhouse, Ferdinando Bracciforti (1889)
"... ím. act of tormenting Tormentare, va. 1. to torment, torture, rex, ...
cruelly Tormentoso, -a, a. tormenting, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"... Thou in beholding my tormenting woe—And I, in gazing on thy lovely eyes.
THE SONNET. From the Spanish of Lope de Vega, Behold ! while joking, ..."
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