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hydra
noun as in curse
noun as in plague
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in plague
Strong matches
noun as in polyp
Strongest match
Strong matches
noun as in sea serpent
Example Sentences
But this may be like the Hydra, where something new can grow in its place.
Antifragile things, meanwhile, are strengthened by it—just as Hydra grows stronger and more multiheaded with every decapitation.
Editor's note: An earlier version of this article confused the monster Hydra with Medusa.
The gang is a hydra, he said, and Suffolk County has seen fluctuations in gang activity.
But the animal itself is the same "hydra-headed monster," let whomsoever may fancy to pet it.
I aimed at the many-headed hydra whose visible representative was Frick.
The Homestead developments had given him temporary prominence, thrown this particular hydra-head into bold relief, so to speak.
Evil complicates, by one knows not what hydra-headed monstrosity, the vast, cosmic whole.
Navigation everywhere contends with the same monster; the sea is one hydra.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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