MOLESTER Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

molester

noun

Definition of molester

as in rapist

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as in tormentor

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Noun

An impromptu blind date with a handsome rapist ends with Esther punching him square in the nose, his blood gushing through her fingers.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
The roommate also reported an exchange that suggested her rapist may have encountered Sebold in the past.

— Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 30 June 2026

Definition of rapist

Noun

Razia showed up at the scene not to aid in a kidnapping, but to confront her online tormentor, Sacks maintained.

— John Annese, New York Daily News, 4 July 2026
But her primary tormenter, former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, was arrested last year under a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

— William Earl, Variety, 29 June 2026

Definition of tormentor

Noun

Cargo theft has been around for centuries, evident for example in the train robbers of the late 1800s, but soaring demand for AI hardware has shifted heist targets to data centers and the technology’s ever-expanding infrastructure.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 3 July 2026
The crux of the case stems from a 2019 armed robbery at a Virginia bank and how police tracked down the robber.

— Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 2 July 2026

Definition of robber

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

Noun

Many of them, like Tubbs, were refugee Midwesterners, sick of parching droughts and devouring plagues of locusts, the insects descending in buzzing clouds thick enough to blacken the noonday sun.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
Money is tight, especially since a plague has devastated the coffee harvest and destroyed the livelihoods of Miguel’s parents, Pino (Luis Alberti) and Teresa (Fátima Molina).

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 July 2026

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