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also tormenters
as in torturers
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
The mind could wander briefly about the Giants riding a two-game winning streak into a Thursday Night Football matchup with the Eagles, equipped to knock off their tormentors who suddenly look vulnerable.
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Dan Duggan, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
There appears to be no limit to his sensitivity or his determination to humble his tormentors.
—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
Dan Duggan, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
There appears to be no limit to his sensitivity or his determination to humble his tormentors.
—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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The Project Runway star shared teases of herself wearing green paint and prosthetics.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Nov. 2025
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Season one may only be six episodes, but it’s padded out with meandering subplots, vague teases for a second-season mystery, and one overly long and slow-motion-dependent scene at a nightclub.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Amish are part of the wider Anabaptist movement, which puts heavy emphasis on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, containing some of his most radical and counter-cultural sayings — to love enemies, live simply, bless persecutors, turn the other cheek and to endure sufferings joyfully.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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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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The Arsenal head coach did not specify which muscle his marquee signing injured, but was not optimistic as the Sweden international was added to the list of attackers who are not available for Tuesday.—
Art de Roché,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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Two months later, more than 100 people were massacred by attackers in Yelwata, a largely Christian community in Benue state, also in the north-central, according to Amnesty International.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Tormentors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tormentors. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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