| Pronunciation: | | tor'mentur
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- [n] a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings
- [n] someone who torments
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| | Synonyms: | | persecutor, teaser, tormenter, tormenter |
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| | See Also: | | blighter, cuss, flat, gadfly, oppressor, pest, pesterer, tantaliser, tantalizer, witch-hunter |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Tor*ment"or\, n.
1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal
anguish or tortures. --Jer. Taylor.
Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings.
--Milton.
2. (Agric.) An implement for reducing a stiff soil,
resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. --Hebert.
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