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beast

Definition for beast

noun as in large wild animal

Strongest matches

animal, creature, wild animal

Weak matches

beastie, lower animal

noun as in coarse, crude, or cruel person

Strongest matches

brute, cad, ogre, ogress

Strong matches

barbarian, cur, fiend, swine

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In the Dinosaur Coast gallery, the beasts don’t just stand there: They guard their young from predators and engage in fierce life-and-death struggles.

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The Hedgehog is a drying and cleaning beast.

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"Maybe I have got a dark side," says Carr, while Sir Stephen adds: "I don't know what beasts lie within me".

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Seeing these dead beasts suspended by their tails elicited a "gallows-like" feeling, he recounts, but not fear.

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The intensity of a 50-over World Cup is a different beast.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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