tormenter
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7.4
- noun
- /tɔrˈmɛntər/
- NSFW
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tormentador
- Staring back at his tormenter.
Examples
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No doubt a user who is the "target of a sustained campaign of criticism and some harassment" may indeed "fail to differentiate" between the different classes of his tormenters.
Blog text (3) -
As a teenager, this attitude was crippling, but as I grew, I became aware that I was abnormally strong and intelligent, much more so than my tormenters.
Blog text (16) -
It didn't seem to make any difference what name you called the Tormenter.
Fiction book (1993) -
Would that we might engulf and drown our tormenters.
Fiction book (1993) -
Bucceroni, now considerably bigger than Savitz, punched his tormenter.
Blog text (10) -
From the center of the circle where the dogs had hemmed it in, the hart struck out at its tormenters with golden hooves.
Fiction book (1993) -
Her father always forgave his tormenters and attackers, while she prayed they would know all the fires of hell for what they had done to him.
Fiction book (1998) -
The Abyssinians considered the subject populations to be pagans and, hence, suitable to be mistreated with no religious remorse on the part of the tormenters:
Academic text (1994) -
The story about the outcast winning homecoming as a joke and turning the tables on her tormenters is getting a lot of mileage on Facebook as a real-life version of "Carrie" with a much happier ending.
Blog text (30) -
After enduring years of harassment, she finally stood up to her tormenter and sought help.
Synonyms
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5.3
A person who treats someone cruelly or violently, often over time
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8.4
A person who enjoys hurting other people
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7.7
A person who causes very bad physical pain to punish or make someone talk
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7.9
A person who hurts someone on purpose, often again and again
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6.3
A person who repeatedly bothers, threatens, or scares others
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8.1
A person who repeatedly hits or hurts someone in their home
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7.9
A person who treats others cruelly because of their race, religion, or beliefs over a long time
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8.3
A person who harms or tricks another person to control them
A person who hurts people or animals on purpose
A person who hurts another person
Someone or something that causes harm to others
Antonyms
How Cruel
- Offensive
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7.7
- NSFW
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7.4
- Offensive
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3.2
- Offensive
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4.1
- Informal
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4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tormenter comes from torment, which goes back to an old Latin word meaning 'to twist' or 'to press', so to torment someone is like twisting or pressing them with pain or worry. That's why a tormenter is a person who deliberately causes pain or distress.