Synonyms for Tormenting

Synonyms for "tormenting" (108 found)

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Closest matches (22)

Noun(8 words)

abuse agonizing agony anguish anguishing badger bedeviling bedevilling

acute afflictive aggravating agonizing annoying atrocious biting bothering bothersome chafing consuming cramping

Verb(2 words)

afflicting besetting

Strong matches (32)

Related words (54)

irking irksome irritating obsessive oppression painful paroxysmal pesky pestering pestiferous pestilent pestilential piercing plaguesome plaguey plaguing poignant provoking pungent racking

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Noun(7 words)

nag persecution pester teasing torment torture torturing

Verb(1 words)

tortured

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

16 entries

abuse annoy annoying behaviorcause distressdistressing disturbemotional stateemotional strainharassinflict harmirritatingmoral strugglepainfulpsychological statesevere treatment

More specific

17 entries

agonizing painagony anguish badgerbullying behaviordistressexcruciating sufferingharassmentlingering doubtmoral dilemmanag persecutionpersistent naggingpester plague rack

Showing 16 of 17 words.

Collocations

11 entries

tormenting doubttormenting feartormenting gazetormenting heattormenting memoriestormenting memorytormenting paintormenting pressuretormenting questionstormenting stimulitormenting thoughts

Inflections

5 entries

more tormentingmost tormentingtormented tormentings torments

Derivations

3 entries

torment tormenter tormentingly

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The yakuza were tormenting Hiroshi.

Source: tatoeba (329583)

Why are you tormenting me with that?

Source: tatoeba (1723795)

Stop tormenting your brother.

Source: tatoeba (3564315)

Stop tormenting me.

Source: tatoeba (3722676)

Showing 4 of 11 available sentences.

Tormenting