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单词 tormentor
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tormentor

(tɔːʳmentəʳ)
Word forms: plural tormentors
countable noun [usually poss NOUN]
Someone's tormentor is a person who deliberately causes them physical or mental pain.
...cases where women subjected to years of brutality lose control and kill theirtormentors.

tormentor in British English

or tormenter (tɔːˈmɛntə)
noun
1. 
a person or thing that torments
2. 
a curtain or movable piece of stage scenery at either side of the proscenium arch, used to mask lights or exits and entrances
3.  cinema
a panel of sound-insulating material placed outside the field of the camera to control the acoustics on the sound stage

tormentor in American English

(tɔrˈmɛntər; ˈtɔrˌmɛntər)
noun
1. 
a person or thing that torments
2.  Theatre
a flat or curtain that projects out onto either side of the proscenium stage, for concealing the wings and backstage from the audience
3.  Cinema
a covered screen for absorbing echoes on a set
Also sp. torˈmenter
Word origin
ME tormentour < OFr tormenteor; (sense 2) because it can obstruct the view of those sitting at the sides

Examples of 'tormentor' in a sentence
tormentor

That stopped when she knocked down her chief tormentor.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Golf, the game that defines him, has become his chief tormentor.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Is snooker the love of his life, the redemptive vehicle that has saved him, or his principal tormentor?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
ENGLAND were merciless tormentors of a callow Wales, who succumbed to their heaviest defeat against their rivals.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
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