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UK
/tˈɔːtʃəɹɐ/
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[ US /ˈtɔɹtʃɝɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɔɹtʃɝɝ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for punishment or coercion)
How To Use torturer In A Sentence
- It is no accident that he seeking to recruit the torturers, hangmen and thugs of the old Baathist regime.
- The discipline of the guards is not very good. Sentry duty wearies them, for they must also serve as torturers, interrogators and perform the duties of kidnappers.
- Presumably, the chief harm to others in torturing animals that are the property of the torturer is psychic. More Fun With Libertarian Animal Rights
- A violent and sudden earthquake is said to have toppled a nearby hill, causing the torturers to flee in terror.
- Torture always dehumanizes both the torturer and his victim.
- On the left, 2008 Presidential Candidate Fred Thompson, and on the right, Ghostbusters II villain Vigo the Carpathian, also known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy. SIMI-LEBRITIES: You Are Like the Buzzing of Flies to Him! | Best Week Ever
- And, I hope, pass laws sooner rather than later to demilitarise the police; ban Tasers and rubber bullets; criminalise police and politician violence against free speech activities; demand prosecutions for financial fraud; compel the corporate books that unaccountably swallow billions in tax revenue to be audited; investigate torturers; bring home soldiers from corporate wars of choice – and rebuild society, this time from the grassroots up, accountably, lawfully and democratically. How to Occupy the moral and political high ground | Naomi Wolf
- What the high court has done, however, is to at least bring the torturers within the orbit of the law, subject to some form of accountability and judicial restraint.
- I cannot go into the atrocities the torturers inflicted upon her.
- Finally, his valorisation of tolerance above all other things, is all too compatible with injustice (albeit that such a notion may not have the same ring in the minds of torturers as it will in the minds of victims).