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UK
/tɔːmˈɛntɔː/
]
[ US /ˈtɔɹˌmɛntɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɔɹˌmɛntɝ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who torments
- a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings
How To Use tormentor In A Sentence
- My tormentor laughed bitterly.
- And a younger, sprier Edwards fearlessly taunted his tormentor, U.S. Attorney John Volz, once rising to his feet for a toast in a French Quarter bar while trilling, “When my moods are over, and my time has come to pass, I hope they bury me upside down, so Volz can kiss my ass.” FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
- I wouldn't mind death, so I could escape my tormentors here, but I fear the painful ways of dying the men here invent.
- He orientated himself slowly, like a simpleton, arms outstretched, turning gradually as if surrounded by tormentors. THE LAST RAVEN
- I rose and was about to clap my hat upon my head and burst away, in wrathful indignation from the house; but recollecting — just in time to save my dignity — the folly of such a proceeding, and how it would only give my fair tormentors a merry laugh at my expense, for the sake of one I acknowledged in my own heart to be unworthy of the slightest sacrifice — though the ghost of my former reverence and love so hung about me still, that I could not bear to hear her name aspersed by others — I merely walked to the window, and having spent a few seconds in vengibly biting my lips and sternly repressing the passionate heavings of my chest, I observed to Miss The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- John delivered a coruscating attack on the tormentors within his own party.
- Like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the refuseniks, Sakharov and Bonner ultimately outlasted their tormentors.
- It wasn't just that they wanted to reject the crass behaviour of her tormentors. The Sun
- When you tire of tolerating the troll trash trust the true tribesman to thrust the tenacious tergiversation of the tormentor of our terpsichorean teacher You been doing a good job of dancing around the fool to the termitarium to which he resides. Think Progress » Pundit Attacking Muslim Congressman Is Bush Appointee to Holocaust Memorial Board
- Liskula Cohen, who successfully sued Google to unmask the blogger, told "Good Morning America" Wednesday that she called her tormentor and ... Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now