noun
Meaning 1
Someone who tortures.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
torturer
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for punishment or coercion)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: oppressor
Narrower terms: flogger, scourger
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English torture Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English torturer From torture + -er.
Across languages
Translations
51 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: جَلَّاد (jallād) — one who tortures
- Armenian: տանջող (tanǰoġ) — one who tortures
- Belarusian: мучы́цель (mučýcjelʹ) — one who tortures
- Belarusian: катава́льнік (kataválʹnik) — one who tortures
- Belarusian: кат (kat) — one who tortures
- Bulgarian: мъчи́тел (mǎčítel) — one who tortures
- Catalan: torturador — one who tortures
- Chinese Mandarin: 拷問者 /拷问者 (kǎowènzhě) — one who tortures
- Czech: mučitel — one who tortures
- Esperanto: torturisto — one who tortures
- Estonian: piinaja — one who tortures
- Finnish: kiduttaja — one who tortures
- French: tortionnaire — one who tortures
- French: bourreau — one who tortures
- Galician: torturador — one who tortures
- German: Folterknecht — one who tortures
- Greek: βασανιστής (vasanistís) — one who tortures
- Greek: βασανίστρια (vasanístria) — one who tortures
- Ancient Greek: βασανιστής (basanistḗs) — one who tortures
- Hebrew: מענה (ma'aneh) — one who tortures
- Hindi: सितमगर (sitamgar) — one who tortures
- Hungarian: kínzó — one who tortures
- Italian: aguzzino — one who tortures
- Italian: seviziatore — one who tortures
- Italian: torturatore — one who tortures
- Italian: tormentatore — one who tortures
- Italian: tormentatrice — one who tortures
- Latin: tortor — one who tortures
- Latin: tortrīx — one who tortures
- Lithuanian: kankintojas — one who tortures
- Macedonian: ма́чител (máčitel) — one who tortures
- Macedonian: вади́душа (vadíduša) — one who tortures
- Norwegian: torturist — one who tortures
- Old English: pīnere — one who tortures
- Polish: oprawca — one who tortures
- Polish: kat — one who tortures
- Portuguese: torturador — one who tortures
- Romanian: torționar — one who tortures
- Russian: пала́ч (paláč) — one who tortures
- Russian: мучи́тель (mučítelʹ) — one who tortures
- Russian: мучи́тельница (mučítelʹnica) — one who tortures
- Serbo-Croatian: му̀читељ — one who tortures
- Serbo-Croatian: mùčitelj — one who tortures
- Slovak: mučiteľ — one who tortures
- Spanish: torturador — one who tortures
- Swahili: mtesaji — one who tortures
- Swedish: torterare — one who tortures
- Turkish: işkenceci — one who tortures
- Ukrainian: мучи́тель (mučýtelʹ) — one who tortures
- Ukrainian: кат (kat) — one who tortures
- Volapük: toman — one who tortures
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