tormentor

Noun

Meaning

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

torturer harrier hangman harpy nag lasher plague nemesis blight fiend stalker shaitan hurter enemy infection
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Antonyms

savior guard prey defender protector butt
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Hypernyms

flat oppressor

Hyponyms

gadfly pest cuss harasser pesterer blighter

Phrases with the word

tormentor sapling tormentor tree iron tormentor

Examples

I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor. Leo Tolstoy

NATURE: So flees the squirrel from the rattlesnake, and runs in its haste deliberately into the mouth of its tormentor. I am that from which thou fleest. Giacomo Leopardi

Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies. Susan Sontag

Talent is a valued tormentor. Truman Capote

Apparently deciding Charles's brief introduction wasn't good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. "Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna-. Patricia Briggs

Unconscionable Love, bane and tormentor of mankind, parent of strife, fountain of tears, source of a thousand ills, rise, mighty Power, and fall upon the sons of our enemies with all the force you used upon Medea when you filled her with insensate fury. Apollonius of Rhodes

Close letter words and terms

tormentise tormentive tormentless tormentor sapling tormentor tree tormentour