You searched for: “tormenting
torment (verb), torments; tormented; tormenting
To cause someone, or something, to feel extreme physical or mental pain: "Harry's mother told him to stop tormenting his sister."

"Jim was tormented by thoughts of death."

This entry is located in the following units: -ment (page 9) tors-, tort-, -tort, tortu-, torqu- (page 3)