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It is a noun that refers to someone who causes physical, mental, or emotional pain or distress to another person. Example: The school bully was known to be a ruthless tormentor, constantly picking on and teasing his classmates.
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tormentor
noun
Someone who torments.
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Merciless tormentor of anyone south of the "olive line".
Far from being a "Blairite" as charged (Blair will give a hollow laugh when he hears his tormentor so described), Balls is trying to sustain a serious Keynesian critique of the coalition's cuts policy, one shared by the grey-bearded heavyweight pundits he once worked with at the Financial Times.
There was no denying his tormentor this time, however.
Murray could not properly get into the fight, so perfect was his tormentor, and fans shifted in their seats, wondering, no doubt, if they should leave early to avoid the storm that was said to be on its way.
But fantasy is fantasy and justice is justice and I'll never forget my delight, aged eight, at seeing that dog's-bottom-mouthed tormentor of small children bounce around the room with "bangers in [her] bottom!" 2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling JK Rowling provides an equally marvellous example of children wreaking explosive revenge on power-abusing authority figures.
Is their tormentor just another sicko student?
TURKS are generally delighted at the spectacle of their captured chief tormentor, Abdullah Ocalan, trying to save his neck as he faces a catalogue of charges for monstrous crimes.
But in a grotesque twist, their tormentor was also a child, not yet even a teenager.
As one congressional tormentor after another took aim at the industry for its past mistakes and questioned whether it had done anything to make it worth saving, it was the tall, courtly Mr Wagoner who was squarely in the crosshairs.On the face of it, it is remarkable that Mr Wagoner is still in his job at all.
After the 100th candle, the room was plunged into darkness and something spooky was supposed to happen.Such ghost-revellers would have expected to see a scowling, long-haired woman in a white funeral gown and with no feet the classic image of the wife who, betrayed and murdered by her husband, returns from the dead to punish her tormentor.
Mr González's tormentor, Sacyr Vallehermoso, says it wants to become BBVA's biggest shareholder not a tall order, given that no one now has a stake of more than 1%.
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