molester

noun

Definition of molesternext
1
as in rapist

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2
as in tormentor

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for molester
  1. rapist
  2. tormentor
  3. predator
  4. harasser
  5. robber
  6. torturer
  7. plague
Noun
  • Her students turn Percy Shelley into a misogynist and probable rapist, then attack the idea that anything written by such a man might remain worth reading.
    — Zain Khalid, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
  • After looking into his relatives, detectives learned of Stephens, who police suspected was the rapist.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of rapist
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  • Each nutty denunciation of his imaginary tormentors includes a plea for a presidential pardon.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026
  • So her lighthearted moment with her former tormentor was noteworthy, and not lost on Negan.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 27 July 2026
Definition of tormentor
Noun
  • Losing these predators could harm the entire park’s ecosystem.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Fee is physically abused, but Big Eric treats him differently from the other children, grooming him not as a victim but as a fellow-predator.
    — Garth Greenwell, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of predator
Noun
  • 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
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  • The robbers were given a key and information about the property by Anthony Black, a security guard at the warehouse whose sister was in a relationship with Robinson.
    — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026
  • On Saturday, around seven masked robbers shut off the alarms and surveillance cameras surrounding one of Marchesi Antinori’s cellars in Cortona.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of robber
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  • 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
Noun
  • The Russian Federation replied on Tuesday, saying no case of plague had recently been reported in the Irkutsk Oblast, in southeastern Siberia, and that about 200 contacts had been placed in quarantine.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The infection triggers swollen, painful lymph nodes and can progress to septicemic plague.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of plague
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“Molester.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molester. Accessed 13 Oct. 2026.

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