torturer
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England): (file)
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: […] [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.
Translations
one who tortures
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Danish
Noun
torturer c
- indefinite plural of tortur
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔʁ.ty.ʁe/
Audio: (file)
Verb
torturer
- to torture
Conjugation
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
- tortureur
Further reading
- “torturer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
torturer
- imperative of torturere