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| tormenting | |
| 1. adj. Involving or causing torment. |  |
| 2. n. The act by which somebody is tormented. | |
| torment | |
| 1. n. (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine. | |
| 2. n. Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture. | |
| 3. n. Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental. | |
| He was bitter from the torments of the divorce system. | |
| 4. v. To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.) | |
| The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off. | |
