Meaning of beast | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An animal, especially a large or dangerous land vertebrate. A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal. All non-human animals seen as a group
2. An animal, especially a large or dangerous land vertebrate.
3. A figure in the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse), often identified with Satan or the Antichrist.
4. Acronym of Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS.
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5. A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal
6. A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
7. A wild, or seemingly-wild, animal that roams free in a country where it is usually only found in zoos.
8. A perversely bad, cruel, or wicked person:archfiend, devil, fiend, ghoul, monster, ogre, tiger, vampire.
9. All non-human animals seen as a group
10. All non-human animals seen as a group.
    collective, often
11. A cadet's basic training at West Point.
    US, slang
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13. A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal
14. A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal.
15. An animal other than a human, especially a large four-footed mammal.
16. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner
17. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
18. Animal nature as opposed to intellect or spirit: an insult that brought out the beast in him.
19. Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.
    slang
20. A very large or powerful person or thing: drives a beast of a truck.
21. Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
    slang
22. Something of a specified kind: Her latest film is an odd beast.
23. A sex offender.
    derogatory, slang
24. A brutal, contemptible person.
25. Something unpleasant and difficult.
    figuratively
26. any animal other than man, esp a large wild quadruped
27. A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.
28. savage nature or characteristics: the beast in man.
29. a brutal, uncivilized, or filthy person

Equivalents

Examples

“Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.”

“[…] it always had the making of a fine beast about it, but up to the time I had it up here in a stall by itself it did not get the chance to make any headway [ie, fatten], all its mates were down on it and it never seemed to fill itself. […] A big framed beast takes a lot of food — expensive food at that [—] to keep it doing […]”

“Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.”

“‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’”

“Language is what separates man and beast.”

“That is a beast of a stadium.”

“The subwoofer that comes with this set of speakers is a beast.”

“Shouts had been heard: 'We're coming to kill you, beasts.' In desperation, Rule 43s had tried to barricade their doors[…]”

“For many prisoners and in many prisons, antipathy towards 'nonces' or 'beasts' is little more than an idea[…]”

“[…] Even unopposed, the natural obstacles are formidable, and defending his line of advance will be a beast of a problem."”

“He'd be in the hospital a few days — broken collarbone, a cast on his arm, a beast of a headache — but fine.”

“Now, the nucleus of a heavy element is a very peculiar beast.”

“'Lucy Leave', also known as 'Lucy Lea in Blue Tights', is a stranger beast altogether. Musically it is as derivative as everything else the band was playing at this time”

“But Wasting Light, recorded analog to tape (API 1608 32track, two Studer 827s) with no computers, not even to mix or master, is an entirely different beast.”

“Murder is a stranger beast than suicide, although the end result of both is the same.”

“The Number of the Beast Is 666 (13:16-18) John's vision concludes with the notorious reference to the "mark of the beast" and the number 666.”

“the Beast of Bodmin Moor”

“Plebes spend their first summer at Cadet Basic Training — Beast Barracks — where they get soldierized.”

“I was able to keep up with the herd and evade the Beast. Cadet Basic Training ended with a rigorous twenty four-hour exercise that included a twelve-mile, rite-of-passage road march to West Point […]”

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