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"word": "pīnere"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one who tortures",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "oprawca"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one who tortures",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kat"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one who tortures",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "torturador"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "paláč",
"sense": "one who tortures",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пала́ч"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mučítelʹ",
"sense": "one who tortures",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мучи́тель"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mučítelʹnica",
"sense": "one who tortures",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мучи́тельница"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one who tortures",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "му̀читељ"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one who tortures",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "mùčitelj"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "one who tortures",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mučiteľ"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one who tortures",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "torturador"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "one who tortures",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "torterare"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "one who tortures",
"word": "işkenceci"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "mučýtelʹ",
"sense": "one who tortures",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мучи́тель"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kat",
"sense": "one who tortures",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кат"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "one who tortures",
"word": "toman"
}
],
"word": "torturer"
}
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