Definitions for tormentor

tormentor tor·men·tor

Spelling: [tawr-men-ter, tawr-men-]
IPA: /tɔrˈmɛn tər, ˈtɔr mɛn-/

Tormentor is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 208 anagrams from letters in tormentor (emnoorrtt).

Definitions for tormentor

noun

  1. a person or thing that torments.
  2. Theater. a curtain or framed structure behind the proscenium at both sides of the stage, for screening the wings from the audience. Compare teaser (def 2).

Origin of tormentor

1250-1300; Middle English tormento(u)r Anglo-French; Old French tormenteor. See torment, -or2

Examples for tormentor

I was prepared for all this, and was most affable to the tormentor of a traveller's patience.

How did Cedric, your former close friend and current tormentor, get into the SUR party?

All the while, my tormentor kept saying, “When will you learn, when will you learn.”

Other times, his tormentor is kind to him, offering him coffee and grilling him about the great state of New Jersey.

The Jew beholds his tormentor dressed in the vestments of his own ancient culture.

Characters who start off as victims willingly slip into the role of tormentor.

Napoleon turned upon his tormentor; "a better man than you, Frenchman!"

William Yorke, vouchsafing no reply, broke away from his tormentor.

Napoleon clinched his little fist, and turned hotly on his tormentor.

She was very angry, but she was determined that her tormentor should not know it.

Word Value for tormentor
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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