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tormentor

noun
tor·​men·​tor | \ tȯr-ˈmen-tər How to pronounce tormentor (audio) , ˈtȯr-ˌmen- How to pronounce tormentor (audio) \
variants: or less commonly tormenter

Definition of tormentor

1 : one that torments
2 : a fixed curtain or flat on each side of a theater stage that prevents the audience from seeing into the wings
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 And once again, the Patriots are the tormentors of the Raiders. — Los Angeles Times, "Column: Antonio Brown tantrums his way off Raiders and onto Patriots," 7 Sep. 2019 WSJ Mugabe Death Robert Gabriel Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s liberator turned tormentor, is dead at 95. — David Meyer, Fortune, "Designing a Sustainable Future: CEO Daily," 6 Sep. 2019 As the boy’s skin flushes red, his tormentors see blood. — Tim Parks, Harper's magazine, "Murder Italian Style," 19 Aug. 2019 With memorable home wins over Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United, along with a historic victory away at Tottenham, the Wanderers were last season’s tormentors of the big six. — SI.com, "Wolverhampton Wanderers 2019/20 Season Preview: Strengths, Weaknesses, Key Man & Predictions," 6 Aug. 2019 Still grieving, Mason finds solace in a new friendship with little Calvin Chumsky and with a wonderful dog that unfortunately belongs to Mason’s chief tormentor at school. — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, "Children’s Books: Heavyweight Contenders," 22 Nov. 2018 Red Summer also marked a new era of black resistance to white injustice, with African Americans standing up in unprecedented numbers and killing some of their tormentors. — Washington Post, "Hundreds of black deaths in Red Summer ignored century later," 23 July 2019 These are the Sixers of trash-talking, front-runner Joel Embiid, and 3-pointer-allergic Ben Simmons, of tormentor Andrew Toney and bruising Moses Malone. — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, "You can’t blame Al Horford for taking the money, but why, oh why, did it have to be the Sixers, Al?," 1 July 2019 The males stood upright and charged at their tormentors, swinging their arms over their heads. — National Geographic, "Jane Goodall’s original tale of chimpanzees still astonishes today," 17 Apr. 2019

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First Known Use of tormentor

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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