Explore Tormentor through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like tormenter or persecutor. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Tormentor meaning
- One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering.
- A person delegated to torture prisoners.
Synonyms of Tormentor
Using Tormentor
- The main meaning on this page is: One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering. | One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering. | A person delegated to torture prisoners.
- Useful related words include: tormenter, persecutor, oppressor, teaser.
- In the example corpus, tormentor often appears in combinations such as: the tormentor, his tormentor, chief tormentor.
Context around Tormentor
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tormentor
- In this selection, "tormentor" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, chief, schofield, babies, included, naoya and type stand out and add context to how "tormentor" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include against his tormentor naoya inoue and happened her tormentor is free. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tormentor" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tormentor
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I had never heard of tormentor-type but. (8 words)
That episode sees the babies’ tormentor out of commission and by Tommy’s parents. (14 words)
Decades later as an adult, Baum integrated his tormentor into the novel as the Scarecrow. (15 words)
The stress has led to her hair falling out, she said, and while she is 'forever changed' by what happened, her tormentor is free to move on with his life after he received community service as his punishment. (38 words)
Martinez dazzles as Inter demolish Shakhtar to reach Europa League finalLautaro Martinez played chief tormentor as Inter Milan claimed an emphatic 5-0 victory against Shakhtar Donetsk to reach the Europa League final and come closer. (36 words)
With this decisive win, Tapales strengthens his position as the WBC’s No. 2 contender in the super bantamweight division, inching closer to another shot at world championship against his tormentor Naoya Inoue. (33 words)
Example sentences (15)
The first was Obelisk the Tormentor, included in the 2011 Gold Series 4: Pyramids Editionalongside an alternate art version creator Kazuki Takahashi.
The stress has led to her hair falling out, she said, and while she is 'forever changed' by what happened, her tormentor is free to move on with his life after he received community service as his punishment.
Germany was the tormentor in 1996, and rubbed it in by singing the song during their balcony celebration at Frankfurt Airport, led in voice by future national team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
Oh Dae-Su is now encouraged by his merciless kidnapper to find the one responsible for his bizarre abduction and imprisonment and exact his savage, long-awaited retribution on the tormentor.
With this decisive win, Tapales strengthens his position as the WBC’s No. 2 contender in the super bantamweight division, inching closer to another shot at world championship against his tormentor Naoya Inoue.
And Eritreans hope the World Court has reserved a cell room for Eritreans who will cooperate by sending a tormentor who can provide company for Al Bashir.
Instead, Evans was Pompey's chief tormentor, with his energy and tenacity causing the Gills all sorts of problems in the first period.
Livi were doing all the could to slow things down with Schofield tormentor-in-chief as far as the home fans were concerned.
Martinez dazzles as Inter demolish Shakhtar to reach Europa League finalLautaro Martinez played chief tormentor as Inter Milan claimed an emphatic 5-0 victory against Shakhtar Donetsk to reach the Europa League final and come closer.
That episode sees the babies’ tormentor out of commission and by Tommy’s parents.
I had never heard of tormentor-type but.
Decades later as an adult, Baum integrated his tormentor into the novel as the Scarecrow.
His temper, however, is sometimes short where Harry is concerned and positively flares when dealing with his erstwhile tormentor Sirius, or when accused of cowardice.
The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor.
There she was informed that Alexander VII, her patron and tormentor, had died in May 1667.
Common combinations with tormentor
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the tormentor 3×
- his tormentor 2×
- chief tormentor 2×
- of tormentor 2×