Definitions for tormentors

tormentors tor·men·tor

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

Tormentors is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 427 anagrams from letters in tormentors (emnoorrstt).

Definitions for tormentors

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).
  3. a person or thing that torments.
  4. 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 tormentors

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

Examples for tormentors

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.

She was suspended from school after hitting one of her tormentors.

But, if he take me at my word, I shall be rid of one of my tormentors.

Day or night it was all one with us; never did our tormentors cease to afflict us.

He propped himself against a wall and reproved his tormentors in Latin.

The authorities quickly involved themselves, tracking down his tormentors.

"I should have thought his tormentors were fitter occupants of his cell," said Ralph.

He was whisked away from the scene of the attack, but his tormentors assaulted him again in the local hospital.

Last year, buoyed by his 2012 reelection, Obama dismissed the notion of schmoozing with his Republican tormentors on Capitol Hill.

The Internet rallied around the boy, and his tormentors have been identified.

She bowed her head as if she were already in the midst of her tormentors.

Word Value for tormentors
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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