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Definition of Tormentor

1. Noun. Someone who torments.

2. Noun. A flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings.

Definition of Tormentor

1. n. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures.

Definition of Tormentor

1. Noun. Someone who torments. ¹

2. Noun. An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tormentor

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Tormentor

1. 1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. "Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings." (Milton) 2. An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tormentor

torlike torma tormas torment tormenta tormented tormentedly tormenter tormenters tormentful

tormentil tormentils tormenting tormentingly tormentise tormentor (current term) tormentors tormentour tormentours tormentress

tormentresses tormentries tormentrix tormentry torments tormentum tormina torminal torminous torn

Literary usage of Tormentor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1790)
"... we would, celebrate the mere attempt as glorious. • NOVELS. Art. 23. The Self -tormentor. ... tormentor."

2. Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses of the Past and Present Centuries: In by Thomas Henry Taunton (1888)
"tormentor was a bf, foaled in 1863, the property of Mr. Dunbar. ... tormentor was a slight, weedy-looking filly, with bad heels, curby hocks, weak knees, ..."

3. Reminiscences Chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford Movement by Thomas Mozley (1882)
"After enduring this and a great deal more, I should doubt whether Marriott ever got a word or a line, or even a thought, from his tormentor, from the time ..."

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