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Torturer   /tˈɔrtʃərər/   Listen
Torturer

noun
1.
Someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for punishment or coercion).





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"Torturer" Quotes from Famous Books



... unhappy man saw the swords of the robbers before he heard what was the matter, the entrance of Dolabella, raging,—his ill omened voice, and infamous countenance,—the chains, the scourges, the rack, the armourer who was both torturer and executioner, all which they say that the unhappy Trebonius endured with great fortitude. A great praise, and in my opinion indeed the greatest of all, for it is the part of a wise man to resolve beforehand that whatever can happen to a brave man ...
— The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 • Cicero
... not know a gentle, kindly Nature. She was no friend of his. He knew her as a siren, a murderess and a torturer, yet with great secret aims that no man could name or discern. Even the kindly summer moon lighted the way for hunting creatures to find and rend their prey. The snow trapped the deer in the valleys where the wolf pack might ...
— The Snowshoe Trail • Edison Marshall
... the man who was turning the wheel, but de Hooch couldn't place it. The man was wearing a black hood, as befitted a torturer ...
— The Bramble Bush • Gordon Randall Garrett


Words linked to "Torturer" :   scourger, oppressor, torture, flogger


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