TORTURER Synonyms

• a cruelly rapacious person

• a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

• resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

• a cruel and brutal fellow

• a hired thug

• excellent

• be bossy towards

• discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate

• a cruel and oppressive dictator

• a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine

• a ruler who is unconstrained by law

• a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner

• someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms

• an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant

• a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification

• a person who whips himself as a religious penance

• a questioner who is excessively harsh

• an official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition

• a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures

• someone who torments

• someone who torments

• a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings

• someone who torments

• a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings

• a cruel and oppressive dictator

• in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it

• any person who exercises power in a cruel way