TORTURER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for punishment or coercion)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("torturer" is a kind of...):

oppressor (a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "torturer"):

flogger; scourger (a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders))

Derivation:

torture (subject to torture)

torture (torment emotionally or mentally)