Noun
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 dictionaryI 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