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/tˈɔrmˌɛntər/ Listen

noun

Tormentor n.

One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. "Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings."

(Agric.) An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tormentor" Quotes from Famous Books

... rebelled, even as the poorest worm will turn if it be sufficiently trodden upon; but that, too, was useless. My tormentor held me in a grip of steel. Worse than all, the dog's life she was leading me caused me to lose all sense of proportion. As a choice between two evils, a return to prison would have been far more endurable than this ...

— Branded • Francis Lynde

... merry sayings as I. My jokes are again noised about and quoted; once more I take pleasure in my wife's confidential chatter without a mercenary thought, while Guy and Viola play at my feet distributing gems of childish humor without fear of the ghastly tormentor who used to dog ...

— Waifs and Strays - Part 1 • O. Henry

... Valerian Miranda," pursues his tormentor, in a tone intended to be soothing. "When I ask you to give me your sister I mean it in an honourable sense. I wish her for my wife; and to save your life she will consent to become so, if you only use your influence to that end. She will not be a faithful sister if she do ...

— The Lone Ranche • Captain Mayne Reid

... with bird cages and baskets and carts and pigs, for all I know, in her ears, as the other girls do, and won't she look like a goose?" asked one tormentor, tweaking a curl that strayed ...

— Eight Cousins • Louisa M. Alcott

... she faced her tormentor unflinching, her eyes like stars. And it came to Mrs. Bathurst with unpleasant force that she had taken a false step which it was impossible to retrace. It was then that the evil spirit that had been goading her entered in and ...

— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell

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