Torturer
noun
A person who hurts someone intentionally and severely especially for information or punishment.
The prisoner was subjected to intense pain by the merciless torturer.
Often appears as...
- merciless torturer
- professional torturer
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Disapproving
noun
Someone or something that causes great mental or emotional pain.
His guilty conscience was a relentless torturer.
Often appears as...
- relentless torturer
- inner torturer
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Disapproving
noun
A person who hurts someone intentionally and severely especially for information or punishment.
The prisoner was subjected to intense pain by the merciless torturer.
Often appears as...
- merciless torturer
- professional torturer
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
Someone or something that causes great mental or emotional pain.
His guilty conscience was a relentless torturer.
Often appears as...
- relentless torturer
- inner torturer
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word 'torturer' typically carries a very negative meaning, implying cruelty.
In the movie, the villain was portrayed as a sadistic torturer.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Context
'Torturer' can be used to describe a historical role in periods where torture was legal.
In medieval times, the torturer was feared by all.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical and Mental
While 'torturer' often implies physical pain, it can also refer to psychological torment.
The interrogator became a torturer, trying to break his will.
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abuseraggressorbullyoppressorpersecutortormentor
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How to spot a liar PIPE...
confronting her daughter's murderer and torturer in court. Here you're going to see no false emotion, just the authentic expression of a mother's agony. Erin I wrote this statement on the third anniversary of the night you took my baby, and you hurt her, and you crushed her,
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The reality constructed...
parts of my day where I'm inside a book somewhere and I'm in trouble with my mother so I'm hiding in the toilet or in the bathroom oh-hoh with a torturer with
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How to spot a liar PIPE...
confronting her daughter's murderer and torturer in court. Here you're going to see no false emotion, just the authentic expression of a mother's agony. Erin I wrote this statement on the third anniversary of the night you took my baby, and you hurt her, and you crushed her,
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The reality constructed...
parts of my day where I'm inside a book somewhere and I'm in trouble with my mother so I'm hiding in the toilet or in the bathroom oh-hoh with a torturer with
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Roger Waters
British Musician
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti - France and the United States - combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.
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Arundhati Roy
Indian Novelist
Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
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Andrew Marr
British Journalist
Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries, commentators or torturers - nor friends, either.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
English Writer
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
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Naveen Andrews
British Actor
I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.
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Tony Kushner
American Playwright
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
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Nagma
Indian Politician
During the 35 years of Left regime, there was no independence. We were left at the hands of torturers.
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Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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Fernando Flores
Chilean Politician
I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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Roger Waters
British Musician
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti - France and the United States - combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.
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Arundhati Roy
Indian Novelist
Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
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Andrew Marr
British Journalist
Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries, commentators or torturers - nor friends, either.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
English Writer
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
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Naveen Andrews
British Actor
I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.
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Tony Kushner
American Playwright
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
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Nagma
Indian Politician
During the 35 years of Left regime, there was no independence. We were left at the hands of torturers.
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Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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Fernando Flores
Chilean Politician
I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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