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English
Etymology
From torture + -er.
Noun
torturer (plural torturers)
- Someone who tortures.
1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. (First Quarto), London: Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, , published 1597, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], signature F3, recto:I play the torturer by ſmall and ſmall / To lengthen out the worſt that muſt be ſpoken: […]
1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter V, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. , volume III, London: for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 102:My destruction might indeed arrive a few months sooner; but if my torturer should suspect that I postponed it, influenced by his menaces, he would surely find other, and perhaps more dreadful means of revenge.
Translations
one who tortures
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: جَلَّاد m (jallād)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: мучы́цель m (mučýcjelʹ), катава́льнік m (kataválʹnik), кат m (kat)
- Bulgarian: мъчи́тел (bg) m (mǎčítel)
- Catalan: torturador m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Czech: mučitel m
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: kiduttaja (fi)
- French: tortionnaire (fr) m, bourreau (fr) m
- Galician: torturador m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Folterknecht (de) m
- Greek: βασανιστής (el) m (vasanistís), βασανίστρια (el) f (vasanístria)
- Ancient: βασανιστής m (basanistḗs)
- Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
- Hindi: सितमगर (hi) m (sitamgar)
- Hungarian: kínzó (hu)
- Italian: aguzzino (it) m, seviziatore (it) m, torturatore (it) m, tormentatore m, tormentatrice f
- Latin: tortor m
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: ма́чител m (máčitel), вади́душа m (vadíduša)
- Norwegian: torturist m
- Old English: pīnere m
- Polish: oprawca (pl) m, kat (pl) m
- Portuguese: torturador (pt) m
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: пала́ч (ru) m (paláč), мучи́тель (ru) m (mučítelʹ), мучи́тельница (ru) f (mučítelʹnica)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: му̀читељ m
- Roman: mùčitelj (sh) m
- Slovak: mučiteľ m
- Spanish: torturador m
- Swedish: torterare c
- Turkish: işkenceci (tr)
- Ukrainian: мучи́тель m (mučýtelʹ), кат (uk) m (kat)
- Volapük: toman (vo)
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Danish
Noun
torturer c
- indefinite plural of tortur
French
Etymology
From torture + -er.
Pronunciation
Verb
torturer
- to torture
Conjugation
| infinitive
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simple
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torturer
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| compound
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avoir + past participle
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| present participle or gerund1
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simple
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torturant
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁɑ̃/
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| compound
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ayant + past participle
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| past participle
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torturé
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁe/
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singular
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plural
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| first
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second
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third
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first
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second
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third
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| indicative
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je (j’)
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tu
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il, elle, on
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nous
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vous
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ils, elles
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(simple
tenses)
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present
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torture
/tɔʁ.tyʁ/
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tortures
/tɔʁ.tyʁ/
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torture
/tɔʁ.tyʁ/
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torturons
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁɔ̃/
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torturez
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁe/
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torturent
/tɔʁ.tyʁ/
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| imperfect
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torturais
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁɛ/
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torturais
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁɛ/
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torturait
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁɛ/
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torturions
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁjɔ̃/
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torturiez
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁje/
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torturaient
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁɛ/
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| past historic2
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torturai
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁe/
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torturas
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁa/
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tortura
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁa/
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torturâmes
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁam/
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torturâtes
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁat/
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torturèrent
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁɛʁ/
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| future
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torturerai
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁe/
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tortureras
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁa/
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torturera
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁa/
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torturerons
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
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torturerez
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁe/
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tortureront
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
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| conditional
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torturerais
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/
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torturerais
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/
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torturerait
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/
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torturerions
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/
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tortureriez
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁje/
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tortureraient
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/
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(compound
tenses)
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present perfect
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present indicative of avoir + past participle
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| pluperfect
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imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
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| past anterior2
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past historic of avoir + past participle
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| future perfect
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future of avoir + past participle
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| conditional perfect
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conditional of avoir + past participle
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| subjunctive
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que je (j’)
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que tu
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qu’il, qu’elle
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que nous
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que vous
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qu’ils, qu’elles
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(simple
tenses)
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present
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torture
/tɔʁ.tyʁ/
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tortures
/tɔʁ.tyʁ/
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torture
/tɔʁ.tyʁ/
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torturions
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁjɔ̃/
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torturiez
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁje/
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torturent
/tɔʁ.tyʁ/
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| imperfect2
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torturasse
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁas/
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torturasses
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁas/
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torturât
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁa/
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torturassions
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/
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torturassiez
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁa.sje/
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torturassent
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁas/
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(compound
tenses)
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past
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present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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| pluperfect2
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imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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| imperative
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–
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tu
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–
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nous
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vous
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–
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| simple
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—
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torture
/tɔʁ.tyʁ/
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—
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torturons
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁɔ̃/
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torturez
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁe/
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—
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| compound
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
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2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
- past historic → present perfect
- past anterior → pluperfect
- imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
- pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).
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Further reading
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
torturer
- imperative of torturere