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Excruciating vs Tormenting - What's the difference?

excruciating | tormenting |

As adjectives the difference between excruciating and tormenting

is that excruciating is causing great pain or anguish, agonizing while tormenting is involving or causing torment.

As a verb tormenting is

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As a noun tormenting is

the act by which somebody is tormented.

excruciating

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
    • the nation's most excruciating dilemma -- W. H. Ferry (rfdate)
  • Exceedingly intense; extreme

    • Related terms

    * cruciate * excruciate * excruciatingly

    tormenting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (more)
  • Involving or causing torment.

    • Synonyms

    * tormentous

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is tormented.
  • * 1832 , Mary Brunton, Self Control (page 335)
    • If Laura really entertained the hope she mentioned, she was miserably disappointed; for Lady Pelham remitted not a jot of her tormentings .