tormentor

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /tɔːˈmɛn.tə(ɹ)/    美 /tɔɹˈmɛn.tɚ/|/toːˈmen.tə(ɹ)/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering.; A person delegated to torture prisoners. archaic
    — And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
  3. Something abstract that causes suffering. figuratively
    — These words hereafter thy tormentors be!
  4. 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. An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.
  6. A long meat-fork. obsolete
    — 1813, Charles Stewart, enclosure in a letter to the Secretary of the Navy, dated 18 October, 1813, in William S. Dudley (editor), The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History, Washington D.C.: Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, 1992, Volume 2, p. 392, Cabin furniture received onboard the U.S.F. Constellation at Washington […] 1 Cleaver and tormentors/Cook; [footnote:] A tormentor is a long iron meat fork used by sea cooks.

词形变化

tormentors plural tormentour alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
self-tormentor
相关词
tormentress tormentrix

词源

From Anglo-Norman tourmentour, from Old French tormenteor.
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