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- Tuntematon aksentti:
- IPA: /ˈmɑnstɚ/
- IPA: /ˈmɑːnt.stɜː/
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Substantiivit
- A terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or mythical kind.
- A bizarre or whimsical creature.
- A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
- (archaic) 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. (Offensive when applied to humans in modern usage.)
- (figuratively, humorous) A badly behaved person, especially a child; a brat.
- (informal) Something very or unusually large.
- (informal) A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
- (gaming) A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games; a mob
- (offensive) A disabled person.
Adjektiivit
- (informal) Very large; worthy of a monster.
- (informal) Great; very good; excellent.
Verbit
- (transitive) To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
- (intransitive) To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
- (chiefly Australia) To harass.
- (UK, live action roleplaying games) To play (a series of) non-player characters as directed, without having the responsibility of organising the game itself; generally not limited to playing literal monsters or hostile combatants.
- (informal, British, transitive) To condemn or reprimand.
Esimerkit
- “You did great today,” I told Josh. “You were monster.” “yeah,” he said. “I was monster. Thank you, Charlie.”
- Andy Roddick has been monstered by both Federer and Nadal and suffered a 6-2 7-5 7-5 semi-final loss at the hands of the Swiss champion.
- The interrogators asked members of the 377th Military Police Company to help them with monstering, and the MPs complied.
- 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
- 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.
- Demonizing or monstering other groups has even become part of the cycle of American politics.
- 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.
- 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.
- I turned to Jack and said, "It's supposed to be monster."
- The children decided Grover was a cuddly monster.
- How do you get more monster than a monster truck? You build a monster tank.
- He has a monster appetite.
- That dude playing guitar is a monster.
- Have you seen those powerlifters on TV? They're monsters.
- Sit still, you little 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.
- Get away from those children, you meatheaded monster!
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