Definition of torturer in English:
torturer
nounˈtɔːtʃərəˈtɔrtʃ(ə)rər
A person who inflicts severe pain on someone as a punishment or in order to force them to do or say something.
they died at the hands of sadistic torturers
Example sentencesExamples
- At least these torturers will be shamed and punished.
- During the early 1980s, he developed a reputation as a brutal torturer and interrogator.
- The subject of the torture will indeed tell the torturer anything he or she wants to here in order to stop the physical torture.
- I cannot go into the atrocities the torturers inflicted upon her.
- Victims confronted their torturers directly.
Definition of torturer in US English:
torturer
nounˈtɔrtʃ(ə)rərˈtôrCH(ə)rər
A person who inflicts severe pain on someone as a punishment or in order to force them to do or say something.
they died at the hands of sadistic torturers
Example sentencesExamples
- The subject of the torture will indeed tell the torturer anything he or she wants to here in order to stop the physical torture.
- During the early 1980s, he developed a reputation as a brutal torturer and interrogator.
- I cannot go into the atrocities the torturers inflicted upon her.
- At least these torturers will be shamed and punished.
- Victims confronted their torturers directly.