tormenting

Tormenting \Tor*ment"ing\, a.
   Causing torment; as, a tormenting dream. --
   {Tor*ment"ing*ly}, adv.
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Torment \Tor*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {tormented}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {tormenting}.] [OF. tormenter, F. tourmenter.]
   1. To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating
      misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. " Art
      thou come hither to torment us before our time? " --Matt.
      viii. 29.
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   2. To pain; to distress; to afflict.
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            Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy,
            grievously tormented.                 --Matt. viii.
                                                  6.
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   3. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with
      importunities, or with petty annoyances. [Colloq.]
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   4. To put into great agitation. [R.] "[They], soaring on main
      wing, tormented all the air." --Milton.
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77 Moby Thesaurus words for "tormenting":
      acute, afflictive, aggravating, agonizing, annoying, atrocious,
      biting, bothering, bothersome, chafing, consuming, cramping, cruel,
      desolating, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing,
      exasperating, excruciating, fretting, galling, gnawing, grave,
      griping, harassing, hard, harrowing, harsh, heartbreaking,
      heartrending, heartsickening, heartwounding, hurtful, hurting,
      importunate, importune, irking, irksome, irritating, painful,
      paroxysmal, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential,
      piercing, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, poignant, provoking,
      pungent, racking, rending, severe, sharp, shooting, spasmatic,
      spasmic, spasmodic, stabbing, stinging, tearing, teasing, tiresome,
      torturing, torturous, troublesome, troubling, upsetting, vexatious,
      vexing, wearisome, worrisome, worrying