Definition of "tormentor" []

• One that torments. (noun)
• A hanging at each side of a stage directly behind the proscenium that serves to block the wing area and sidelights from the audience. (noun)
• A sound-absorbent screen used on a movie set, used to prevent echo. (noun)

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• "Luckily, his tormentor is less extreme than the examples above."
• "And she feels with blood-chilling certainty that her mysterious tormentor is perilously close and that she may vanish next."
• "Jacob Shuster was the name of the man whom she spoke of as her tormentor and master, and from whom she fled."