TORMENTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tormentor mean? 

• TORMENTOR (noun)
  The noun TORMENTOR has 2 senses:

1. someone who torments

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

  Familiarity information: TORMENTOR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TORMENTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who torments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

persecutor; tormenter; tormentor

Hypernyms ("tormentor" is a kind of...):

oppressor (a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tormentor"):

harasser (a persistent tormentor)

blighter; cuss; gadfly; pest; pesterer (a persistently annoying person)

tantaliser; tantalizer (someone who tantalizes; a tormentor who offers something desirable but keeps it just out of reach)

witch-hunter (someone who identifies and punishes people for their opinions)

Derivation:

torment (torment emotionally or mentally)

torment (treat cruelly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

teaser; tormenter; tormentor

Hypernyms ("tormentor" is a kind of...):

flat (scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting)

 Context examples 

Possibly Beauty Smith, arch-fiend and tormentor, was capable of breaking White Fang's spirit, but as yet there were no signs of his succeeding.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The girl and the old man began to shuffle on in the crowd without their tormentors venturing to stop them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That was the man, Buck divined, the next tormentor, and he hurled himself savagely against the bars.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Wolf Larsen it was, always Wolf Larsen, enslaver and tormentor of men, a male Circe and these his swine, suffering brutes that grovelled before him and revolted only in drunkenness and in secrecy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Dazed, suffering intolerable pain from throat and tongue, with the life half throttled out of him, Buck attempted to face his tormentors.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

More tormentors, Buck decided, for they were evil-looking creatures, ragged and unkempt; and he stormed and raged at them through the bars.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)