tormentor

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “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 […]”

2. isim A person delegated to torture prisoners.

   “And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.”

3. isim Something abstract that causes suffering.

   “These words hereafter thy tormentors be!”

4. isim 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.

   “Then Nathan Eldred, gently pushing, was muttering, ‘On you go, dear. Good luck!’ and she was edging between the tormentor and the backing flats, in front of the curtain, holding her small hands out to the sudden-silenced audience […]”

5. isim An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.
6. isim A long meat-fork.