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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.

Worm


Definition:

  • (n.) A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
  • (n.) Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.
  • (n.) Any helminth; an entozoon.
  • (n.) Any annelid.
  • (n.) An insect larva.
  • (n.) Same as Vermes.
  • (n.) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
  • (n.) A being debased and despised.
  • (n.) Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
  • (n.) The thread of a screw.
  • (n.) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
  • (n.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta.
  • (n.) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still.
  • (n.) A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below.
  • (v. i.) To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
  • (v. t.) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out.
  • (v. t.) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).
  • (n.) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
  • (n.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other filarial worms which are known to occur in the RSA are discussed.
  • (2) The drugs were moderately potent inhibitors of both E. electricus and C. elegans acetylcholinesterase but at concentrations too high to account for their abilities to contract cut worms.
  • (3) The sectioned worm tissues from each developmental stage were embedded in Lowicryl HM 20 medium, stained with infected serum IgG and protein A gold complex (particle size: 12 nm) and observed by electron microscopy.
  • (4) glp-4(bn2ts) mutant worms raised at the restrictive temperature contain approximately 12 germ nuclei, in contrast to the 700-1000 present in wild-type adults.
  • (5) Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-ricin exhibited binding to schistosomula and adult worms, but not to cercariae or to freshly transformed schistosomula.
  • (6) Sera from S. mansoni-infected patients with a high specificity for the diagnostic S. mansoni-antigen cross-reacted with a corresponding component also in S. japonicum worms.
  • (7) To understand mechanisms involved in sex-specific gene expression in Schistosoma mansoni, a cDNA (fs800) was isolated that hybridized to an 800 nucleotide mRNA present in high levels only in mature female worms.
  • (8) Three freeze-thaw cycles released a large proportion (50% to 60%) of the TCA-precipitable radioactivity from the worms.
  • (9) Antigen inhibition studies showed low and high levels of cross-reactivity with anti-worm and anti-egg antibodies, respectively, derived from both Chinese and Philippine patients.
  • (10) Only eosinophils adhered to 2 h newborn worms and only macrophages to 20 h ones.
  • (11) Worms had invaded the bile duct in 51 patients, the pancreatic duct in four and both ducts in four.
  • (12) The number of ovarian balls rises to about 6300 per worm, with the maximum being attained more rapidly in unfertilized than in fertilized females.
  • (13) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
  • (14) Three bulls selected for high faecal worm egg counts and three bulls selected for low faecal worm egg counts were mated to Africander-Hereford cross cows.
  • (15) Among 30 villagers who were treated, 4 (13.3%) passed this species with an average of 2.5 worms per infection.
  • (16) Successful tests were carried out on 84 farms and 68% of these had resistant worms present.
  • (17) A higher retention rate of intestinal adult worms was observed in hydrocortisone-treated mice.
  • (18) No evidence was obtained for the involvement of monoamine oxidases in the metabolism of 5-HT in these filarial worms.
  • (19) Radiocarbons from glucosamine and leucine were incorporated into tissue glycogen of female worms much less than glucose.
  • (20) The heads were examined for adult and larval meningeal worms (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) by physical examination of the brain surfaces, and the Baermann technique, respectively, and for ear mites by examination of ear scrapings.

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