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also tormenters
as in harassers
a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another
shocked by the news that his chief tormentor from elementary school had written a book about the dangers of bullying
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Recent Examples of tormentors
There appears to be no limit to his sensitivity or his determination to humble his tormentors.
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David Remnick, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
But can the Yankees really stare down their tormentors and finally best Houston in a playoff format?
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Brown-Trickey was eventually suspended for standing up to her tormentors, while her white aggressors went unpunished.
—Time, 4 Sep. 2025
David Remnick, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
But can the Yankees really stare down their tormentors and finally best Houston in a playoff format?
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Brown-Trickey was eventually suspended for standing up to her tormentors, while her white aggressors went unpunished.
—Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tormentors
Noun
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For decades, generals, coup-plotters, and torturers walked free under the shield of amnesty laws passed after the country’s 21-year dictatorship.—
Julia Vargas Jones,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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Each regime, from the Pahlavi dynasty to the Islamic Republic, claimed to uphold human rights and castigated its predecessors as torturers, only to ratchet up the incarceration of political opponents.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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That is a nasty process which involves digging up Ambar’s still-fresh corpse, then subjecting it to various grisly indignities night after night as retribution gets visited upon our heroine’s persecutors.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
6 Aug. 2025
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Using it to describe this week’s attack on Huwara – or other similar attacks in Israel or Palestine – effectively puts Israel in the place of the Jews’ historic persecutors.—
Joshua Shanes,
The Conversation,
6 Mar. 2023
Noun
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The attackers use a technique called SEO poisoning.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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Approximately 50 soldiers guarding the vehicles attempted to repel the attackers, presidential spokesperson Carolina Jaramillo said, without specifying whether anyone was injured.—
Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
29 Sep. 2025
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The case drew international attention over allegations that Smollett had allegedly staged the attack and paid two bodybuilding brothers to pretend to be his assailants.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
26 Sep. 2025
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Two assailants, Devon Erickson, then 18, and accomplice Alec McKinney, then 16, carried out the attack.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
21 Sep. 2025
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“Tormentors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tormentors. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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