Tormentor
[tɔː'mentə] or [tɔr'mɛntɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures.
(n.) An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.
Typist: Shelley
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Torturer.
Typist: Xavier
Examples
- He was her owner, her tyrant and tormentor. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- If the companion moves his head in order to avoid the reflected beam, his tormentor moves or inclines the mirror and flashes the beam back to his victim's face. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The History of a Self-Tormentor I have the misfortune of not being a fool. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Pray do not go, said my wild, young tormentor, Augustus Berkeley, who came upstairs without permission, just as we were ready to start. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Fledgeby, watching him with a twitch in his mean face which did duty there for a smile, looked very like the tormentor who was pinching. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He turns towards his last tormentor when a man on foot holds out a red flag; the bull rushes for this and is allowed to take it on his horns. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I may die; but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- With a cry of rage and pain the she-ape turned upon her tormentor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I was very close to him and spoke in a low whisper that my knowledge of their secret might not be disclosed to our tormentors. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- At length I could endure it no longer, and, taking a fresh grasp upon my long-sword, I turned suddenly and charged down upon one of my tormentors. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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