bourreau

Definitions of bourreau
  1. noun
    an executioner who hangs the condemned person
  2. noun
    someone who torments
    synonyms: persécuteur
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    types:
    peste
    a persistently annoying person
    taquin
    someone who tantalizes; a tormentor who offers something desirable but keeps it just out of reach
    type of:
    oppresseur
    a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures
  3. noun
    an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant
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    type of:
    assassin, tueur
    someone who causes the death of a person or animal
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