Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tormentor

/tɔɹˈmɛn.tɚ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.31 in modern English

Syllables: tor-men-tor
IPA: /tɔɹˈmɛn.tɚ/

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering.

noun

One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering.

Archaic

noun

Something abstract that causes suffering.

noun

One of a pair of narrow curtains just behind the front curtain and teaser that mask the areas on the sides of the stage and can be adjusted to the desired width.

noun

An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.

noun

A long meat-fork.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Before that estimable lady could recover herself, or offer the slightest retaliation, she was forced into a kneeling posture by a crowd of shouting tormentors, and compelled to swallow a spoonful of the odious mixture […]"
"A girl of the village […] came and rang at my bell as soon as it was light […] perfectly maddened with an aching tooth. […] The poor thing begged me with tears in her eyes to take out her tormentor, if I dragged her head off."
"The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland."
"And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him."
"All the racks and dungeons of Rome, with their tormentors, could not terrify him."
"1933, Hervey Allen, Anthony Adverse, New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 6, p. 78, Her eyes rested on him for an instant like those of an accused person seeing the state tormentor approach for the first time."

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman tourmentour, from Old French tormenteor.

Origin

Source language: Old French

Word Breakdown

Root: tourmentour, tormenteor

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /tɔɹˈmɛn.tɚ/
British English: /tɔːˈmɛn.tə(ɹ)/

Usage

Inflected Forms

tormentors (plural) tormentour (alternative, obsolete)

Phrases

self-tormentor

Frequently Paired Words

tormentress tormentrix

Synonyms

scourge torturer tormenter teaser persecutor

Rhymes With

center off-center centre off-centre enter re-enter valley center mentor correction center correction centre presenter inventor

Questions

How do you pronounce tormentor?: The recorded pronunciation is /tɔɹˈmɛn.tɚ/.
What does tormentor mean?: One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering.
Where does tormentor come from?: It is traced to Old French.

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