Thesaurus results for ABUSER

abuser

noun

Definition of abuser

as in oppressor

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Recent Examples of abuser The two sisters kill Gillian’s abuser, whose spirit comes back to haunt and eventually possess Gillian. — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026 He’s been called an abuser, a pornographer, a dictator and an agent of the Russian state. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026 The house’s fragile order begins to fracture as an accuser arrives to confront his abuser, bringing with him a storm of unspoken memories. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2026 In Season 2, Mary-Louise comes crashing into Celeste’s life after Perry’s death, eager to take custody of her grandsons and unable to see that her son was an abuser. — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026 Multiple people said before they were attacked, their abuser had to sign them out of their dorms. — Dave Boucher, Freep.com, 28 July 2026 The mother, as originally rendered in King’s novel and the De Palma film, is an abuser, tyrannical in her parenting. — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 13 July 2026 Sometimes judges don’t have a full picture of the risks a victim faces, like an abuser’s access to weapons and prior threats to kill, and release men arrested on domestic violence charges quickly, with little to keep them away from the women they’re accused of hurting. — Sara-James Ranta, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 June 2026 The third and fourth sections are, respectively, a somewhat non-traditional perpetrator and a man who seeks out his abuser many years later. — The Know, Denver Post, 4 June 2026

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Noun

Can an accurate story of a system of oppression be derived from sources created and preserved by the oppressors?

— Drew Gilpin Faust, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
For the left that supports the Palestinian cause, Muslims are the oppressed and the West – including Israel – are the oppressors… Whether Muslims hold conservative-religious views in this context is irrelevant.

— Tyler Speicher, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of oppressor

Noun

Red is immediately abducted, cut open in an ambulance, and injected with pain-magnifying drugs by his torturers, while Liz accidentally murders the mysterious man surveilling her next door.

— EW Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026
Aaron escapes his torturers, first by rooting himself in the town’s only movie theater open to Black people, and then by lying about his age and enlisting in the Navy at 16.

— Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026

Definition of torturer

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Parton’s ability to become the harasser without falling into some version of male drag makes this short sequence far superior to the many films with a similar premise that followed.

— Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
White stars can help by publicly supporting their Black colleagues, who are especially targeted by online trolls and harassers.

— Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of harasser

Noun

Honoring the undocumented and decrying their persecutors at the height of her career, against political headwinds and with nothing to gain and everything to lose, was par for her life, and a challenge for all of us to do the same.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
The Bible relates the remarkable transformation of Saul of Tarsus – at one time a violent persecutor of Christians – who became a powerful teacher-by-example of love and peace.

— Margaret Rogers, Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2026

Definition of persecutor

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As part of the elite unit called the Helldivers, players must work together to protect Super Earth and defeat the enemies of mankind in an intense intergalactic war.

— Justin Kroll, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2026
But the weather was as much an enemy as the North Koreans or the Chinese.

— Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of enemy

Noun

Mahomes has largely been a Broncos antagonist since making his first NFL start in Denver to close the 2017 season.

— Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Colman, in stringy auburn hair, makes a crisply delectable antagonist (who is really, of course, on Ian’s side).

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of antagonist

Noun

Rice closed in eventually and the heckler wasn't as cavalier.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 July 2026
That’s a little simplistic — look at San Francisco’s Scott Wiener being chased from a trans rights event by hecklers accusing him of being pro-genocide.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 1 July 2026

Definition of heckler

Noun

Like dropping Emmett Till's name in an article about the WNBA All-Star game, that's got to be an all-time rage baiter.

— Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2026
Control of the criminal term was ceded to the race-baiters and radical left in an act of political mollification.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026

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