afflicting, agonizing, anguishing, besetting, besieging, cursing, excruciating, harrowing, persecuting, plaguing, racking, tormenting, torturing

assailing, attackingbadgering, dogging, hounding, pursuing, ridingaggravating, agitating, annoying, bothering, bugging, chafing, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, galling, getting, grating, griping, hagriding, harassing, harrying, irking, irritating, molesting, nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting out, rasping, riling, vexingdiscomforting, discomposing, disquieting, flustering, grieving, perturbing, straining, stressing, troubling, trying, upsetting, worryingcrushing, oppressing, overpowering, overwhelming, smiting, striking, tyrannizing, victimizinghurting, paining, panging, pricking, smarting, stabbing, stinging, wringingmartyring