Meaning & use
Tormenter
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A person or thing that causes great suffering, distress, or persistent annoyance.
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The bully became her constant tormenter throughout middle school.
Mosquitoes were the campers' relentless tormenters all night.
A note on using this word
An accepted variant spelling of "tormentor"; in theater, a "tormenter" also refers to a curtain or flat that masks the stage wings from the audience.
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tormentorpersecutor
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Another way to use it
2. noun
In theater, a curtain or flat positioned just behind the proscenium arch to mask the wings from the audience.
The stagehands adjusted the tormenter before the curtain rose.
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