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torturer

English

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Etymology

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From torture +‎ -er.

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Noun

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torturer (plural torturers)

  1. 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: […] [Macdonald and Son] 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.
    • 1876, James John Garth Wilkinson, On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation:
      The torturers of any form of life torture the life. In this they are not only abominators of form, but haters of nature; and the violationist school is misozoic, life-hating; in continuation of that which it also is, misanthropic, or an enemy of mankind.

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Noun

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torturer c

  1. indefinite plural of tortur

French

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Etymology

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From torture +‎ -er.

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Verb

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torturer

  1. to torture

Conjugation

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Conjugation of torturer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple torturer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple torturant
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle torturé
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present torture
/tɔʁ.tyʁ/ 		tortures
/tɔʁ.tyʁ/ 		torture
/tɔʁ.tyʁ/ 		torturons
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁɔ̃/ 		torturez
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁe/ 		torturent
/tɔʁ.tyʁ/
imperfect torturais
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁɛ/ 		torturais
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁɛ/ 		torturait
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁɛ/ 		torturions
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁjɔ̃/ 		torturiez
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁje/ 		torturaient
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁɛ/
past historic2 torturai
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁe/ 		torturas
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁa/ 		tortura
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁa/ 		torturâmes
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁam/ 		torturâtes
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁat/ 		torturèrent
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁɛʁ/
future torturerai
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁe/ 		tortureras
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁa/ 		torturera
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁa/ 		torturerons
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ 		torturerez
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁe/ 		tortureront
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional torturerais
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/ 		torturerais
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/ 		torturerait
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/ 		torturerions
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		tortureriez
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁje/ 		tortureraient
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present torture
/tɔʁ.tyʁ/ 		tortures
/tɔʁ.tyʁ/ 		torture
/tɔʁ.tyʁ/ 		torturions
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁjɔ̃/ 		torturiez
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁje/ 		torturent
/tɔʁ.tyʁ/
imperfect2 torturasse
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁas/ 		torturasses
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁas/ 		torturât
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁa/ 		torturassions
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ 		torturassiez
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁa.sje/ 		torturassent
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — torture
/tɔʁ.tyʁ/ 		— torturons
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁɔ̃/ 		torturez
/tɔʁ.ty.ʁe/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Verb

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torturer

  1. imperative of torturere
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