"torturer" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: torturers [plural]
Etymology: torture + -er Etymology templates: {{affix|en|torture|-er|id2=agent noun}} torture + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} torturer (plural torturers)
  1. Someone who tortures. Categories (topical): Torture Translations (one who tortures): βασανιστής (basanistḗs) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), جَلَّاد (jallād) [masculine] (Arabic), мучы́цель (mučýcjelʹ) [masculine] (Belarusian), катава́льнік (kataválʹnik) [masculine] (Belarusian), кат (kat) [masculine] (Belarusian), мъчи́тел (mǎčítel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), torturador [masculine] (Catalan), mučitel [masculine] (Czech), kiduttaja (Finnish), tortionnaire [masculine] (French), bourreau [masculine] (French), torturador [masculine] (Galician), Folterknecht [masculine] (German), βασανιστής (vasanistís) [masculine] (Greek), βασανίστρια (vasanístria) [feminine] (Greek), सितमगर (sitamgar) [masculine] (Hindi), aguzzino [masculine] (Italian), seviziatore [masculine] (Italian), torturatore [masculine] (Italian), tormentatore [masculine] (Italian), tormentatrice [feminine] (Italian), tortor [masculine] (Latin), ма́чител (máčitel) [masculine] (Macedonian), вади́душа (vadíduša) [masculine] (Macedonian), torturist [masculine] (Norwegian), pīnere [masculine] (Old English), oprawca [masculine] (Polish), kat [masculine] (Polish), torturador [masculine] (Portuguese), пала́ч (paláč) [masculine] (Russian), мучи́тель (mučítelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), мучи́тельница (mučítelʹnica) [feminine] (Russian), му̀читељ [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), mùčitelj [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), mučiteľ [masculine] (Slovak), torturador [masculine] (Spanish), torterare [common-gender] (Swedish), işkenceci (Turkish), мучи́тель (mučýtelʹ) [masculine] (Ukrainian), кат (kat) [masculine] (Ukrainian), toman (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-torturer-en-noun-Kgm2F7KT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)

Inflected forms

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          "code": "el",
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          "roman": "vasanistís",
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      "sense": "one who tortures",
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      "code": "vo",
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      "sense": "one who tortures",
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.