monster

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epäsikiö A terrifying and dangerous creature.
A bizarre or whimsical creature.

The children decided Grover was a cuddly monster.

Get away from those children, you meatheaded monster!

Deducting then these cases, we have a large proportion of imperfect foetuses, which belonged to twin conceptions, and in which, therefore, the circulation of the monster may have essentially depended on that of the sound child.

Sit still, you little monster!

Have you seen those powerlifters on TV? Theyre monsters''.

That dude playing guitar is a monster.

He has a monster appetite.

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A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations feature four cases of women monstered by passion. Madame Defarge is ‘a tigress’, Mrs Joe a virago, Molly (Estella′s criminal mother) ‘a wild beast tamed’ and Miss Havisham a witch-like creature, a ghastly combination of waxwork and skeleton.

The community forgives: this is in deep contrast to offenders that emerge from prison and remain stigmatised and monstered, often unable to get work or housing.

Demonizing or monstering other groups has even become part of the cycle of American politics.

Animals in our world have been monstered by human action as much as the free beasts of the pre-lapsarian state were monstered by the primal crime.

In 2002, American interrogators on the ground in Afghanistan developed a technique they called “monstering.” The commander “instituted a new rule that a prisoner could be kept awake and in the booth for as long as an interrogator could last.” One “monstering” interrogator engaged in this for thirty hours.177

The interrogators asked members of the 377th Military Police Company to help them with monstering, and the MPs complied.

''De inspectie nam een monster van het water.

The inspection took a sample of the water.

''We hebben monsters van alle soorten behang.

We have samples of all types of wallpaper.