noun
- a person who causes severe physical or mental suffering to someone
- a movable piece of stage scenery used to mask the wings of a theater
Usage: theater
Examples
- The playground bully was a constant tormentor to the younger students.
- She couldn’t escape the memories of her childhood tormentor.
- The dictator was known as a cruel tormentor of political prisoners.
- Stage hands adjusted the tormentors to hide the backstage area.
- His guilty conscience became his greatest tormentor.
- The theater’s tormentors were painted black to blend with the darkness.
- Years later, she confronted her former tormentor at the school reunion.