TORTURER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does torturer mean? 

• TORTURER (noun)
  The noun TORTURER has 1 sense:

1. someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for punishment or coercion)

  Familiarity information: TORTURER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TORTURER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for punishment or coercion)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("torturer" is a kind of...):

oppressor (a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "torturer"):

flogger; scourger (a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders))

Derivation:

torture (subject to torture)

torture (torment emotionally or mentally)

 Context examples 

“Look at my torturer,” he replied.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My destruction might indeed arrive a few months sooner, but if my torturer should suspect that I postponed it, influenced by his menaces, he would surely find other and perhaps more dreadful means of revenge.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)