monster
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monster englanniksi
A terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or mythical kind.
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A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
(quote-web) Eventually, I started throwing it all away. Perhaps I am a monster.
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A severely deformed person.
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A badly behaved child, a brat.
Something unusually large.
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(quote-video game)|genre=fiction|Science Fiction|location=Redwood City|publisher=Electronic Arts|year=2008|system=PC|scene=Bridge, Command Deck, (w)|isbn=9780784546642|oclc=246633669|text=(w): Look at the size of that ship!(w): The Ascension. Flagship of the (w) fleet.(w): Well, size isn't everything.Ashley: Why so touchy, Joker?Joker: I'm just saying you need firepower, too.Ashley: Look at that monster! It's main gun could rip through the barriers on any ship in the Alliance fleet.
A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
{{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=Carol Ann Harris|title=Storms: My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac|page=216
A character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games.
Very large; worthy of a monster.
Great; very good; excellent.
To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
{{quote-book|en|year=1968|author=Robert Lowell|title=Robert Lowell: A Collection of Critical Essays|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LvdaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=apazT5inPMKKmQX8ya2cBQ&redir_esc=y|page=145
{{quote-book|en|year=1983|author=Michael Slater|title=Dickens and Women|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GyuH6-eZZaQC&pg=PA290&dq=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dqazT5PFM82RiQfXmdiHCQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false|page=290
{{quote-book|en|year=2005|author=Diana Medlicott|chapter=The Unbearable Brutality of Being: Casual Cruelty in Prison and What This Tells Us About Who We Really Are|editor=Margaret Sönser Breen|title=Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=E2PcInNSesMC&pg=PA82&dq=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dqazT5PFM82RiQfXmdiHCQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false|page=82
{{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=Stephen T. Asma|title=On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ybpsPt7SAE8C&pg=PT251&dq=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dqazT5PFM82RiQfXmdiHCQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false|page=234
To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
{{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=Darius Rejali|title=Torture and Democracy|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=-L8GtJY_J00C&pg=PA292&dq=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=apazT5inPMKKmQX8ya2cBQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false|page=292
{{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=Joshua E. S. Phillips|title=None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=YMZXAAAAYAAJ&q=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22monstering%22%7C%22monstered%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=apazT5inPMKKmQX8ya2cBQ&redir_esc=y|page=39
To harass.
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To play (a series of) characters as directed, without having the responsibility of organising the game itself; generally not limited to playing literal monsters or hostile combatants.
punish, reprimand or intimidate.
A monster, terrifying and dangerous creature.
An extremely antisocial person, especially a criminal.
(l); small, representative quantity of a substance or material, as used for analysis or selection.
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