Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that torments.
- noun A hanging at each side of a stage directly behind the proscenium that serves to block the wing area and sidelights from the audience.
- noun A sound-absorbent screen used on a movie set, used to prevent echo.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which torments.
- noun One who or that which causes pain or anguish; a cause of suffering or great distress.
- noun In agriculture, an instrument for reducing a stiff soil.
- noun A long fork used by a ship's cook to take meat out of the coppers.
- noun In theatrical use, one of the elaborately painted wings which stand in the first grooves.
- noun Same as
back-scratcher . Alsotormenter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures.
- noun (Agric.) An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
torments . - noun An
implement for reducing a stiffsoil , resembling aharrow , but running uponwheels .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who torments
- noun a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings
Etymologies
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Examples
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Luckily, his tormentor is less extreme than the examples above.
The Good Girl Dave Hingsburger 2007
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And she feels with blood-chilling certainty that her mysterious tormentor is perilously close and that she may vanish next.
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Jacob Shuster was the name of the man whom she spoke of as her tormentor and master, and from whom she fled.
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In March, 2007, 17-year-old Eric Mohat shot himself in the head, after a long-term tormentor told him in class, "Why don't you go home and shoot yourself; no one will miss you."
NYT > Opinion 2009
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In March, 2007, 17-year-old Eric Mohat shot himself in the head, after a long-term tormentor told him in class, "Why don't you go home and shoot yourself; no one will miss you."
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Liskula Cohen, who successfully sued Google to unmask the blogger, told "Good Morning America" Wednesday that she called her tormentor and ...
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Wednesday that she called her tormentor and said she forgives her.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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Another claimed his tormentor was a psychotic neighbor who first tried to lure him into a threesome.
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Another claimed his tormentor was a psychotic neighbor who first tried to lure him into a threesome.
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Mr. Tickels writhed beneath the sarcasm, and turned deadly pale, although he and his tormentor were the only persons present who comprehended the secret meaning of the words -- for Fanny was too much engrossed in conversation with Argyle, to heed the remark.
Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life George Thompson
knitandpurl commented on the word tormentor
""Stage right," I said. "Behind the black tormentor curtains."
Rupert blinked once or twice, shot me a barbed look, and clattered back up the narrow steps to the stage. For a few moments we could hear him muttering away to himself up there, punctuated by the metallic sounds of panels being opened and slammed, and switches clicked on and off."
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley, p 34
May 9, 2010