monster
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A terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or mythical kind.
(syn)
(RQ:Shakespeare Tempest)
(quote-book)|tlr=(w)|title=Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi|volume=I|publisher=P. and W. Wilson et al.|location=Dublin|page=6|text=The monſter a tiger, rouſed by the noiſe, ſtarted forward, preſented ſuch a viſage of horror, and raiſed ſuch a hideous roar, that the hearts of the bold were contracted, and the nerves of the valiant unſtrung.
(quote-book)
{{quote-text|en|year=1995|author=Bradley William Johnson|title=Birthed Effects: Shakespeare's Generation of Monsters|page=67
(quote-book)|title=(w)|publisher=Faber and Faber|chapter=|location=London|page=19|passage=“My flesh was not for feasting on,there would be no monsters gnawing and gloatingover their banquet at the bottom of the sea.”
(ux)
A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
(quote-song)
(quote-web) Eventually, I started throwing it all away. Perhaps I am a monster.
{{quote-journal|en|date=May 24, 2019
(senseid) A deformed animal or person (especially, a severely deformed one); in previous centuries often taken as an ill omen at the time of its birth. (ng)
{{quote-text|en|year=1837|title=Medico-Chirurgical Review|page=465
(anchor) (quote-journal )
(quote-book)|title=The Robot Brains|location=London|volume=|publisher=Digit Books|page=153|passage="Periodically, storms would bring the creeping death to the valley - drifting clouds of radio-active dust - and men would sicken and die and women give birth to monsters."
(rfdatek)
- The rest of the day he heard the children playing kick-the-can, hide-and-seek, Over-Annie-Over, jacks, tops, mibs, and the sound of the little monsters in every shrub and shadow would not let him rest.
Something very or unusually large.
(quote-book)|title=(w)|publisher=Ballantine Books|location=New York|year_published=1963|page=132|passage=The blacks had faded into the jungle before the weak eyes of the monster had fallen upon any of them, but now he caught the sound of their retreat, and, amid a terrific crashing of underbrush and branches, he charged in the direction of the noise.
(quote-video game)|genre=fiction|Science Fiction|location=Redwood City|publisher=Electronic Arts|year=2008|system=PC|scene=Bridge, Command Deck, (w)|isbn=9780784546642|oclc=246633669|text=(w): Look at the size of that ship!(w): The Ascension. Flagship of the (w) fleet.(w): Well, size isn't everything.Ashley: Why so touchy, Joker?Joker: I'm just saying you need firepower, too.Ashley: Look at that monster! It's main gun could rip through the barriers on any ship in the Alliance fleet.
A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
{{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=Carol Ann Harris|title=Storms: My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac|page=216
A character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games; a mob
A disabled person.
Very large; worthy of a monster.
Great; very good; excellent.
(quote-web)|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/european/larne-headed-for-conference-league-group-stages-as-andy-ryan-hat-trick-secures-historic-play-off-joy/a187523367.html|title=Larne headed for Conference League group stages as Andy Ryan hat-trick secures historic Play-Off joy|text=Seconds later Nano’s monster throw-in from the left was recycled to the wing-back and, when he produced the most delicious of deliveries, the totally unmarked Lopes drilled home from six yards.
To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
{{quote-book|en|year=1968|author=Robert Lowell|title=Robert Lowell: A Collection of Critical Essays|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LvdaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=apazT5inPMKKmQX8ya2cBQ&redir_esc=y|page=145
{{quote-book|en|year=1983|author=Michael Slater|title=Dickens and Women|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GyuH6-eZZaQC&pg=PA290&dq=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dqazT5PFM82RiQfXmdiHCQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false|page=290
{{quote-book|en|year=2005|author=Diana Medlicott|chapter=The Unbearable Brutality of Being: Casual Cruelty in Prison and What This Tells Us About Who We Really Are|editor=Margaret Sönser Breen|title=Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=E2PcInNSesMC&pg=PA82&dq=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dqazT5PFM82RiQfXmdiHCQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false|page=82
{{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=Stephen T. Asma|title=On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ybpsPt7SAE8C&pg=PT251&dq=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dqazT5PFM82RiQfXmdiHCQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false|page=234
To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
{{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=Darius Rejali|title=Torture and Democracy|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=-L8GtJY_J00C&pg=PA292&dq=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=apazT5inPMKKmQX8ya2cBQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false|page=292
{{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=Joshua E. S. Phillips|title=None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=YMZXAAAAYAAJ&q=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=apazT5inPMKKmQX8ya2cBQ&redir_esc=y|page=39
To harass.
(quote-journal)
To play (a series of) characters as directed, without having the responsibility of organising the game itself; generally not limited to playing literal monsters or hostile combatants.
(rfq-sense)
a (l), terrifying and dangerous creature
an extremely antisocial person, especially a criminal
sample; small, representative quantity of a substance or material, as used for analysis or selection
(infl of)
a (l) (similar senses to English)