tormenter

tor·men·tor

also tor·ment·er (tôr-mĕn′tər, tôr′mĕn′-)

1. One that torments.

2. A hanging at each side of a stage directly behind the proscenium that serves to block the wing area and sidelights from the audience.

3. A sound-absorbent screen used on a movie set, used to prevent echo.

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Noun	1.	tormenter - someone who torments persecutor, tormentor harasser - a persistent tormentor oppressor - a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures blighter, cuss, gadfly, pesterer, pest - a persistently annoying person tantaliser, tantalizer - someone who tantalizes; a tormentor who offers something desirable but keeps it just out of reach witch-hunter - someone who identifies and punishes people for their opinions
	2.	tormenter - a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings tormentor, teaser flat - scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting

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"Run for the river!" shouted the Wizard, and Jim quickly freed himself from his unseen tormenters by a few vicious kicks and then obeyed.

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"Down, stupid tormenters!" cried she; "the man has done his duty; you shall not bait him thus by thoughts of what might have been; he relinquished a temporary and contingent good to avoid a permanent and certain evil he did well.

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About him, till night-fall, persisted a circle of teasers and tormenters. They harangued him for his fall, sneered and jeered at him, rooted him about contemptuously with their feet, made a hollow in the sand out of which he could not roll and desposited him in it on his back, his four tied legs sticking ignominiously in the air above him.

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And now with his tormenter back behind bars Strange's victim has told how the manipulative pervert ruined his life.