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present participle and gerund of torment examples
comparative more tormenting, superlative most tormenting
Involving or causing torment. examples
plural tormentings
The act by which somebody is tormented. quotations examples
If Laura really entertained the hope she mentioned, she was miserably disappointed; for Lady Pelham remitted not a jot of her tormentings.
1832, Mary Brunton, Self Control, page 335