Word Meanings - TORMENTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Causing torment; as, a tormenting dream. -- Tor*ment"ing*ly, adv.

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• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• TORMENTFUL
  Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. Tillotson.
• DREAMINESS
  The state of being dreamy.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• TORMENTOR
  An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• TORMENTIL
  A rosaceous herb , the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea. (more info) tormentilla, Sp. tormentila; all fr. L. tormentum pain. So called
• DREAMER
  1. One who dreams. 2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.
• TORMENT
  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. 2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. Lord, my servant lieth at
• CAUSAL
  A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• CAUSTICALLY
  In a caustic manner.
• CAUSATIONIST
  One who believes in the law of universal causation.
• DREAM
  Dan. & Sw. dröm; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. dr joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the
• TORMENTISE
  Torture; torment. Chaucer.
• TORMENTER
  1. One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor. 2. An executioner. Chaucer.
• CAUSIDICAL
  Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• UNDREAMED; UNDREAMT
  Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.
• ENCAUSTIC
  Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile , an earthenware tile which
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
• DAYDREAMER
  One given to draydreams.
• EREMACAUSIS
  A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.