Torturer

Definition: Torturer

Torturer

Noun

1. Someone who inflicts severe physical pain.

Date "torturer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Crosswords: Torturer

English words defined with "torturer": flogger ♦ scourger. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Torturer" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (excruciate, grill, labour, persecute, rack, torment, torture, wrench).

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Also known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy. (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	The Torturer (Psycho Squad, Book Ii) (reference) The Shadow of the Torturer (His the Book of the New Sun : V. 1) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Torturer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.55% of the time. "Torturer" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	96.55%	28	65,706
Noun (proper)	3.45%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	29	N/A

Language		Translations for "torturer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		torturues (excruciating, gruelling, tormentor), xhelat (executioner, hangman, headsman, jack ketch). (various references)

Arabic		‏متألم (sore, suffering), ‏معذب (afflicted, agonized, murdered, suffering, tormented, tortured), ‏المشوه. (various references)

Bulgarian		мъчител (inquisitor, mauler, tormentor), палач (butcher, executioner, hangman, headsman, jack ketch). (various references)

Chinese		拷�"者. (various references)

Dutch		beul (executioner, hangman). (various references)

Esperanto		torturisto. (various references)

Farsi		شکنجه دهنده . (various references)

French		torturant (tormenting, torturing). (various references)

Frisian		boal (executioner, hangman). (various references)

German		folterknecht. (various references)

Greek		βασανιστήσ (afflicter, macerator, scourger, tormentor). (various references)

Hungarian		kínzó (acute, agonizing, crucifying, excessive, excruciating, killing, obsessive, racking, tearing, to keep sy on tenterhooks, tormentor). (various references)

Italian		boia (executioner, hangman). (various references)

Korean		� 문자. (various references)

Manx		torcheyder (tormentor). (various references)

Pig Latin		orturertay

Portuguese		torturador, carrasco (executioner, hanger, hangman, headsman, jack ketch, tormentor), algoz (butcher, cruel person, executioner, headsman, tormentor). (various references)

Romanian		chinuitor (agonizing, cruel, excruciating, gnawing, harrowing, tormentor). (various references)

Russian		мучитель (mauler, tantalizer, tormenter, tormentor), палач (butcher, executioner, hangman, headsman, jack ketch, slaughterer). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mučitelj (oppressor, tormentor, worrier). (various references)

Spanish		torturador (mauler), atormentador (tormenter, tormentor). (various references)

Swedish		torterare, plågoande (tormentor), bödel (executioner, hangman, headsman, tormentor). (various references)

Turkish		sıkıntı veren şey (cloud, inconvenience), işkenceci (persecutor, tormentor), acı çektiren kimse (tormentor). (various references)

Ukrainian		мучитель (mauler, tormentor, worrier). (various references)

Vietnamese		người tra tấn, người tra khảo người l� m khổ. (various references)

Welsh		poenwr (tormentor), arteithiwr. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	carnificem, tortoribus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "torturer": torturers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Torturer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Tervuren, torquier, tortora, tortue, Tortugero, tortune, tortur, tor-ture, Torturi, toture, tourture. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "torturer" (pronounced 'Tor"tur*er'): Abaiser, Abandoner, Abaser, Abater, Abhorrer, Abider, Abjurer, Abolisher, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Abutter, Acater, Acceder, Accelerometer, Accepter, Accipenser, Accipiter, Acclaimer, Accompanier, Accomplisher, Accorder, Accruer, Accumber, Accuser, Acetifier, Acetimeter, Acetometer, Achiever, Acidifier, Acidimeter, Acipenser, Acknowledger, Acoumeter, Acquirer, Acquitter, Acroter, Actinometer, Adducer, Adelaster, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admeasurer. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-o-r-r-r-t-t-u"
	-1 letter: torture.
	-2 letters: retort, rotter, router, terror, tourer, touter, turret.
	-3 letters: error, otter, outer, outre, retro, rotte, route, torte, toter, trout, truer, tutor, utter.
	-4 letters: euro, rote, roue, rout, ruer, tore, torr, tort, tote, tour, tout, tret, trot, true.
	-5 letters: err, ore, ort, our, out, ret, roe, rot, rue, rut, tet, toe, tor, tot, tut.
	Words containing the letters "e-o-r-r-r-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: torturers.
	+3 letters: carburettor, interruptor, portraiture, retributory.
	+4 letters: carburettors, interruptors, portraitures.
	+5 letters: counterterror, reconstructor.
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