What's the difference between tormentor and tormentress?
Tormentor
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures.
(n.) An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have reflected on everything that happened to me and my family and I have forgiven my tormentors.
(2) Cruz’s angry response, though, succeeded in uniting the contestants against their tormentors and blunted hopes of revealing much about their economic platforms.
(3) Barcelona’s tormentor-in-chief put his penalty to Cech’s right and, although Wenger insisted he will play his strongest team in the return leg, that moment makes it feel like a foregone conclusion.
(4) Long continued harassing Lovren for the remainder of the half, the Croat eventually earning a yellow card for chopping down his tormentor.
(5) The family member was one of five men executed by Isis in the terror group’s latest propaganda video, shot in the head as they submitted to their tormentors while a new English-speaking frontman made menacing threats to Britain.
(6) Albums include Viva Hate, Vauxhall And I, and Ringleader Of The Tormentors.
(7) In the face of hatred, they prayed for their tormentors.
(8) Our Swedish tormentor is introducing vegetarian meatballs at its in-store restaurants, in what it says is the first step in a bid to bring “healthier food” to its menus.
(9) Over more than 50 years, from a post-Cambridge traineeship with the Associated-Rediffusion ITV franchise to a role with al-Jazeera, Frost was the interviewer of eight UK prime ministers and seven US presidents, a pioneer of TV satire and comedy, the tormentor-confessor of Richard Nixon, a TV entrepreneur and early innovator of self-production, a master of the chatshow sofa and a long-running gameshow host.
(10) If there was a consolation for Mr Major, as he faced up to the prospect of being the worst Tory loser since Arthur Balfour also dithered in 1906, it was that his Euro-sceptic tormentors were among the night's biggest losers.
(11) And would he be willing to offer short courses to fellow celebrities in how to slap down one’s tabloid tormentors without inadvertently cultivating an air of “poor ickle me” or allowing some of the dirt to splash back onto one’s own shoes and trousers?
(12) He said he was too scared to shower because of constant threats, and had asked to be moved to a new compound away from his tormentors, but is still waiting to be transferred.
(13) Instead, Netimah, one of hundreds jailed by Buhari during his rule as an iron-fisted dictator, was thrilled for her former tormentor.
(14) How his tabloid tormentors will punish him for this if they can.
(15) Marouane Fellaini played chief tormentor as France suffered a 4-3 home defeat in a friendly against Belgium , one year before the European Championship kicks off on their turf.
(16) And he has chosen as targets the hard-to-protect civilian heartlands of his tormentors and their pro-western allies.
(17) Marty has an apple-cheeked girlfriend (Claudia Wells), is a boyishly good-looking dude, but he comes from duff stock: mum Lorraine (Lea Thompson) is an alcoholic and dad George (Crispin Glover) is a weed, perpetually bullied by his former high-school tormentor, now boss, Biff (Thomas Wilson).
(18) In fact, being drawn so narrowly from the category Occasion Wear, the costumes and photographs could scarcely have been better chosen to overlay memories of the surge of royal-blaming that Diana’s death inspired in 1997 – of her own reinvention as a global charity envoy and amateur healer, of her appointment as feminist heroine as well as tabloid goddess and, above all, of her magnificent achievements as the royal family’s incorrigible, lead tormentor.
(19) However terrifying women's advocates find the quashing of sentences for Sahar Gul's tormentors, the legal changes that some MPs are hoping to bring to the country's criminal prosecution code, now travelling through parliament, would have stopped the case even reaching court.
(20) His qualities have been acknowledged by his tormentors and I’m certain he won’t disappoint when he’s ready to tell his side of the story.