TORMENTOR Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

tormentor

noun

tȯr-ˈmen-tər

variants also tormenter

Definition of tormentor

as in tease

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 tormentor 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 So Jacob is now related to his tormentor. — Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026 Crucial events morphed into massive set pieces, like Louis hunting down Claudia’s killers by setting their theater on fire, exploding the motorcycles of the vampires who fled the inferno, and eventually bursting out of a manhole to behead Claudia’s main tormenter. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 2 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for tormentor

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Noun

But, of course, climactic deaths in Disney projects are always cynical teases.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2026
Nearly 200 million people east of the Mississippi will experience their coldest temperatures since spring as a tease of winter plunges south from Canada in the storm’s wake.

— Chris Dolce, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of tease

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

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

In one of the videos, a policeman is seen repeatedly shooting the attacker, who is lying on the street, only to later slowly collapse himself to the ground.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
In one video, a policeman is seen repeatedly shooting the attacker, who is lying on the street, only to later slowly collapse to the ground himself.

— Claudia Ciobanu, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of attacker

Noun

Are prisoners in Nazi concentration camps not the legal owners of artworks they were forced to make by their SS persecutors?

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of persecutor

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