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# tormentor

«tormentor» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who causes pain, fear or trouble to someone…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural tormentors)

### meaning for a pupil

A tormentor is a person who causes pain, fear or trouble to someone, often on purpose and over and over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tormentor/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, the tormentors are the cruel people who hurt or taunt a helpless prisoner or victim

### examples

- The boy turned to his tormentors and begged them to stop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tormentor/#x1)
- The bully was the tormentor of the smaller children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tormentor/#x2)
- His tormentors laughed as he fell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tormentor/#x3)
- The cat was a tormentor to the mice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tormentor/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths; it names people, and counting tormentors is simple counting.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tormentor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tormentor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.