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/tˈɔːtʃəɹɐ/
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[ US /ˈtɔɹtʃɝɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɔɹtʃɝɝ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for punishment or coercion)
How To Use torturer In A Sentence
- It is no accident that he seeking to recruit the torturers, hangmen and thugs of the old Baathist regime.
- Both of those cultures love torturers (just check out how the Spetznatz trains!) but in America torturing people (and waterboarding is torture, it is simulated drowning) is considered wrong by almost everybody, just like beating your wife is wrong. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
- We must continue to work arduously for the release of so many other political prisoners whose names and faces are known but to their families and their torturers. Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound!
- In the literary genre, Sutherland recommends the Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis's epistolatory novel of Christian apologetics; Letters to my Torturer, Iranian journalist Houshang Asadi's searing memoir of his 682 days in solitary confinement written in the form of letters to Brother Hamid, his torturer; and the remarkable website Letter to my Abuser, on which women can publish letters to their abusers. Gordon Ramsay: 'Dear Mother-in-law'
- Why anyone would think that giving the state the power to be torturer in addition to being executioner is beyond me. Think Progress » Imbalance of Powers.
- Looking at 18 USC 2340 (1) and (2) (d), and noting that under 18 USC 2340A, if death results in the course of torture, that the torturer is subject to the death penalty. The Volokh Conspiracy » Waco
- Weekly Standard blogger Michael Goldfarb want to call torturers 'American heroes' and make light of waterboarding by calling it 'dunking' - ought to believe in making its use widespread. Rational Review
- The torturer would then smash each limb and joint with the heavy, iron-enhanced wheel.
- A sapless soul one lacking strength is another way of the Decider calling the Democrats cowards, yet they are honored by the torturers presence and applaud his continued name calling. Think Progress » Bush: Iraq war is “sapping our soul.”
- It’s unclear to me that making martyrs out of Cheney, Bybee, etc., in the eyes of the 30% dead enders and giving Beltway media types the vapors is actually the best way to deter future torturers rather than entrench torture as an option that “tough minded realists” will fight for in the face of political with hunts. Matthew Yglesias » The Yoo and Bybee Rulings