torturer
16
7.7
- noun
- /ˈtɔrtʃərər/
- Offensive
:
torturador
- Next, a torturer would turn a crank that rotated the table, causing your ears to twist off your head.
- torturer or executioner
- torturer and victim
The torturers often usually isolate their prisoners before they begin interrogating them because then they respond.
- The torturers often usually isolate their prisoners before they begin interrogating them because then they respond.
- The disappointing thing is that while President Obama himself has ended the torture, he has steadfastly refused to prosecute the torturers.
- So it's about creating jailers, torturers, guards to forming a legal system.
Examples
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How all around the earth tonight there are little rooms noisy with pain where torturers crush their victims.
Fiction book (1990) -
At the end of the day, if we torture, we are torturers and cross.
Blog text (11) -
Murderer, torturer, but most of all, master surgeon.
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He's being accused of being a torturer of men.
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As he finished, the torturer came up to stand by his side with a drawn dagger ready to strike.
Fiction book (1990) -
And this despite the fact that the German torturer seeks to do away with every last vestige of his victim's humanity.
Academic text (1996) -
I believe I've earned a moment face-to-face with my torturer, sir.
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Fortunately, most dentists are not torturers and in fact do want to help you have better teeth.
Blog text (14) -
Similarly, a cold-hearted torturer seeks to induce excruciating pain in his victims.
Academic text (2018) -
The torturer inflicted unimaginable pain on his captives to extract confessions.
Synonyms
86
5.3
A person who treats someone cruelly or violently, often over time
32
8.4
A person who enjoys hurting other people
12
7.9
A person who hurts someone on purpose, often again and again
4
7.9
A person who treats others cruelly because of their race, religion, or beliefs over a long time
4
8.3
A person who harms or tricks another person to control them
2
5.3
A person who makes someone suffer for doing something wrong
1
7.4
A person who causes pain or distress to someone on purpose
1
9.3
A person who seriously hurts and disfigures people or animals
1
9.9
A person who beats other people with a stick or strap to punish them
A person who hurts people or animals on purpose
Someone or something that causes harm to others
A person who keeps criticizing someone very harshly, often in public
Antonyms
How Cruel
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Torturer comes from the word torture, which goes back to the Latin root torquere meaning 'to twist'. So a torturer is a person with the ending -er who 'twists' or hurts someone to cause pain or force information.