"tormentor" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /tɔːˈmɛn.tə(ɹ)/ [Received-Pronunciation], /tɔɹˈmɛn.tɚ/ [Canada, US], /toːˈmen.tə(ɹ)/ [General-Australian] Forms: tormentors [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ) Etymology: From Anglo-Norman tourmentour, from Old French tormenteor. Etymology templates: {{der|en|xno|tourmentour}} Anglo-Norman tourmentour, {{der|en|fro|tormenteor}} Old French tormenteor Head templates: {{en-noun}} tormentor (plural tormentors)
  1. One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering. Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-tormentor-en-noun-6hgJFlQR Disambiguation of People: 28 28 19 11 14 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 38 2 32 3 12
  2. One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering.
    (archaic) A person delegated to torture prisoners.
    Tags: archaic Categories (topical): People Synonyms (person delegated to torture prisoners): torturer
    Sense id: en-tormentor-en-noun-vyyRSe24 Disambiguation of People: 28 28 19 11 14 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 38 2 32 3 12 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 22 34 2 23 4 16 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 23 32 3 22 5 16 Disambiguation of 'person delegated to torture prisoners': 14 77 3 5 1 1
  3. (figuratively) Something abstract that causes suffering. Tags: figuratively Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-tormentor-en-noun-1SI9OHdP Disambiguation of People: 28 28 19 11 14 0
  4. (theater) One of a pair of narrow curtains just behind the front curtain and teaser that mask the areas on the sides of the stage and can be adjusted to the desired width. Categories (topical): Theater, People
    Sense id: en-tormentor-en-noun-d6izBSia Disambiguation of People: 28 28 19 11 14 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 38 2 32 3 12 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, theater
  5. An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-tormentor-en-noun-nqlbH9GK Disambiguation of People: 28 28 19 11 14 0
  6. (obsolete, nautical) A long meat-fork. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Nautical
    Sense id: en-tormentor-en-noun-rU9xAc19 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 38 2 32 3 12 Topics: nautical, transport
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: tormentour [obsolete] Derived forms: self-tormentor Related terms: tormentress, tormentrix Translations (someone who torments): мъчител (mǎčitel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), turmentador [masculine] (Catalan), ahdistaja (Finnish), bourreau [masculine] (French), Peiniger [masculine] (German), Peinigerin [feminine] (German), βασανιστής (vasanistís) [masculine] (Greek), ма́чител (máčitel) [masculine] (Macedonian), вади́душа (vadíduša) [masculine] (Macedonian), pīnere [masculine] (Old English), dręczyciel [masculine] (Polish), dręczycielka [feminine] (Polish), atormentador (Portuguese), мучи́тель (mučítelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), мучи́тельница (mučítelʹnica) [feminine] (Russian), atormentador [masculine] (Spanish), plågoande [common-gender] (Swedish), eziyetçi (Turkish)
Disambiguation of 'someone who torments': 44 44 3 5 2 2

Verb [Ido]

IPA: /tormenˈtɔr/
Head templates: {{head|io|verb form}} tormentor
  1. future infinitive of tormentar Tags: form-of, future, infinitive Form of: tormentar
    Sense id: en-tormentor-io-verb-KC3Wzw5B Categories (other): Ido entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1838, William Ware, Probus, New York: C. S. Francis, Volume 1, Letter 2, p. 56",
          "text": "All the racks and dungeons of Rome, with their tormentors, could not terrify him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1933, Hervey Allen, Anthony Adverse, New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 6, p. 78,\nHer eyes rested on him for an instant like those of an accused person seeing the state tormentor approach for the first time."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering.",
        "A person delegated to torture prisoners."
      ],
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        [
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          "torment"
        ],
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          "suffering",
          "suffering"
        ],
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          "delegate"
        ],
        [
          "torture",
          "torture"
        ],
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          "prisoner",
          "prisoner"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering.",
        "(archaic) A person delegated to torture prisoners."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "1759, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and J. Bell, Part 1, Section 1, p. 10,\nThe infant […] feels only the uneasiness of the present instant, which can never be great. With regard to the future it is perfectly secure, and in its thoughtlessness and want of foresight possesses an antidote against fear and anxiety, the great tormentors of the human breast, from which reason and philosophy will in vain attempt to defend it when it grows up to a man."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Rohinton Mistry, chapter 15, in A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, page 630",
          "text": "As he spoke about his loss, it became clear why he had waited at the station platform every day to meet their train: he was matching his wits with time the great tormentor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Something abstract that causes suffering."
      ],
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        [
          "abstract",
          "abstract"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) Something abstract that causes suffering."
      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1940, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 24, in Bethel Merriday, London: Jonathan Cape, page 241",
          "text": "Then Nathan Eldred, gently pushing, was muttering, ‘On you go, dear. Good luck!’ and she was edging between the tormentor and the backing flats, in front of the curtain, holding her small hands out to the sudden-silenced audience […]",
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        "lifestyle",
        "theater"
      ]
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    {
      "glosses": [
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          "soil",
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        ],
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          "wheel",
          "wheel"
        ],
        [
          "share",
          "share#Etymology_2"
        ]
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    {
      "categories": [
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        "en:Nautical"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "1813, Charles Stewart, enclosure in a letter to the Secretary of the Navy, dated 18 October, 1813, in William S. Dudley (editor), The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History, Washington D.C.: Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, 1992, Volume 2, p. 392,\nCabin furniture received onboard the U.S.F. Constellation at Washington […] 1 Cleaver and tormentors/Cook; [footnote:] A tormentor is a long iron meat fork used by sea cooks."
        }
      ],
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        "obsolete"
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      ]
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  ],
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      "ipa": "/tɔːˈmɛn.tə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tɔɹˈmɛn.tɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/toːˈmen.tə(ɹ)/",
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        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ɛntə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "sense": "person delegated to torture prisoners",
      "word": "torturer"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "tormentour"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "mǎčitel",
      "sense": "someone who torments",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "мъчител"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "someone who torments",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "turmentador"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "someone who torments",
      "word": "ahdistaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "someone who torments",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bourreau"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "someone who torments",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Peiniger"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "someone who torments",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Peinigerin"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "vasanistís",
      "sense": "someone who torments",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "βασανιστής"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "máčitel",
      "sense": "someone who torments",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ма́чител"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "vadíduša",
      "sense": "someone who torments",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "вади́душа"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "someone who torments",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pīnere"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "someone who torments",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dręczyciel"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "someone who torments",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dręczycielka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "someone who torments",
      "word": "atormentador"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mučítelʹ",
      "sense": "someone who torments",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "мучи́тель"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mučítelʹnica",
      "sense": "someone who torments",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "мучи́тельница"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "someone who torments",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "atormentador"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "someone who torments",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "plågoande"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "someone who torments",
      "word": "eziyetçi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tormentor"
}

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        "1": "io",
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      "expansion": "tormentor",
      "name": "head"
    }
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  "lang_code": "io",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ido entries with incorrect language header",
        "Ido non-lemma forms",
        "Ido terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Ido verb forms"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "tormentar"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "future infinitive of tormentar"
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tormenˈtɔr/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tormentor"
}

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