Definition of beast in English:

beast

noun biːstbist

1An animal, especially a large or dangerous four-footed one.
a wild beast
Example sentencesExamples
- Cages for beasts like tigers and lions are made of toughened glass with green plants inside.
- However, some residents were a bit apprehensive about having wild carnivorous beasts in their midst.
- She stood up and opened the cage, the beast followed her out and stayed by her side.
- The Hokkaido wolf is a formidable beast but not dangerous to man as long as other prey is to be had for the killing.
- Shepherds, who tended their sheep in the forests, used to beat drums to ward off wild beasts from preying on the cattle.
- On landing, the astronaut ‘will be able to deal with wild beasts, sharks and other dangerous animals or enemies’, the website reported.
- Birds and forest creatures were peaceful here; there, nothing but wild beasts and scavengers roamed the land.
- Many appeared to be mixtures of wild beasts and reptiles.
- Then the movie literally stops and begins anew, retelling a mythic tale about a wild beast and the hunter who must kill it or be devoured by it.
- So how about a wild beast which is half lion and half tiger?
- They soon are left on their own, protecting their herds from lions and other wild beasts.
- These ancient, wild beasts have become pocket-money pets.
- A baby animal might seem cute but potential owners should remember that a nine-inch baby lizard could well turn into a dangerous beast five or six feet long.
- The same can be said of many of the contenders, but lurking in the jungle are some dangerous beasts.
- Instead it sounded like the roar of a beast, deep and dangerous.
- Sometimes, they were left to be eaten by insects or wild beasts.
- But, as has been proved so often in the past, a wounded Wallaby makes a dangerous beast.
- These cunning warriors are trained from birth to hunt, track and trap the most dangerous beasts in the wild.
- A beast is never so dangerous as when it is cornered or injured.
- In Dawson, White Fang becomes an attraction, and people come to see the wild beast in the cage.
1. 1.1usually beasts A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
  mucking out and feeding the beasts is a big job
  Example sentencesExamples
  Used to be that farm beasts, cattle and sheep, sometimes even pigs, were herded into the fields after harvest, working over the stubble and roots.
  A few years ago he'd often spot the wooly beasts on a neighbouring farm with huge sores on their backsides, weak and hardly able to stand.
  These are intelligent but domesticated beasts which have a telepathic link with their human riders, who are colonists on a distant planet.
  There was no room on the farm for any creature, man or beast, who could not perform its role.
  This was an irresistible combination - shame it had to close early but at least those noble beasts can enjoy the after show party down on the farm.
  We conducted an impromptu windfall apple hunt, nearly as much fun as an Easter Egg hunt, and went to feed the greedy beasts.
  The huge antler spikes were within a few yards of her, and in a flash of numbing fear she remembered Mortimer's warning, to beware of horned beasts on the farm.
  According to him, this beast was quite an attraction at the farm and he said its presence will be missed.
  A team from the farm and the auction mart spent several hours giving the beasts a wash and brush up before the sale on Tuesday.
  If you get the cow near the top and push fast and heavily enough you'll tip the bovine beast.
  The bovine beast had escaped from its pen in the Pattaya Naklua area in the early hours of the morning.
  After the horses were well tied up, the driver spent a few minutes feeding the beasts and devising a plan to store his cart.
  Under the fire of the sun, the world became green, the crops grew tall and strong, and the beasts of farm and field have grown fat and strong.
  These very early domesticated beasts looked much like aurochsen; they were large and of very similar morphology.
  They cannot accept that they are just beings the same as pets, farm beasts, flowers, insects et al.
  Synonyms
  animal, creature, brute
  North American informal critter
2. 1.2humorous, archaic An animal as opposed to a human.
  the gift of reason differentiates humanity from the beasts
  Example sentencesExamples
  At once, they were a group of humans, not rabid beasts and they felt fear.
  According to him, the second category of people, which did not contribute to science and knowledge, are more like beasts than human beings.
  If that was true, then these business people must be beasts in human form!
  Mile upon mile of fir and silver birch forests with not a human or beast to be seen.
  For Overton the line between human and beasts was rather unclear.
  The media frenzy following her arrest portrayed an image of a person more beast than human.
  Remember, one principle about humanity: The human race is unlike any beast.
  It chilled me due to the fact that it sounded more beast like than human.
3. 1.3 An inhumanly cruel, violent, or depraved person.
  he is a filthy drunken beast
  sex beasts who are assaulting victims
  Example sentencesExamples
  I also have nothing but praise for the police and law enforcement team - they did a great job and I am glad we have more tools such as DNA testing for catching and convicting sex beasts.
  That sentence was increased after the intervention of the Home Secretary, who instead insisted on a whole life tariff for the sex beast.
  The guests of the banquet sway extraneously from portrayals as parasites, wild, carnivorous beasts and ravenous dogs to spoilt brats at a kid's party to well mannered socialites.
  I saw the transformation take place, the placid exterior to the violent, savage beast.
  But the second she became a traveling cohort she turned into a violent, raging beast.
  She reminds us that French revolutionary leaders were often portrayed as wild beasts or savage tigers by critics at the time and that the tiger in the poem is located in a nightmarish industrial landscape.
  I have been the cruelest of beasts, lying to you and all.
  However, his vapid surface concealed a beast, one that roared in violent protest.
  To top all this off, my horoscope read that I am a cruel heartless beast of a person.
  Some will be so sociopathic that they can't be treated as anything other than dangerous beasts.
  The tender scene made her more determined to help find this inhuman beast and stop him from shattering any more lives.
  Synonyms
  monster, brute, savage, barbarian, animal, swine, pig, ogre, fiend, sadist, demon, devil
4. 1.4informal An objectionable or unpleasant person or thing.
  a scheming, manipulative little beast
  Example sentencesExamples
  Ringing in his ears will be his father's warning ‘not to make a beast of yourself’.
  He obviously thinks I'm a psycho beast and didn't call me.
  Now look here you filthy Russian beast.
  Where a beautiful, intelligent young woman once stood was a beast of death and heartlessness.
  So I dumped a great girl and got involved with what turned out to be the psycho beast from hell.
  He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
  And no, it's not what you're thinking, you dirty beast.
  Synonyms
  wretch
5. 1.5the beast A person's brutish or untamed characteristics.
  the beast in you is rearing its ugly head
  Example sentencesExamples
  I didn't want to do this, but the beast in me was telling me over and over again to do it.
  Any situation that makes you anonymous and gives permission for aggression will bring out the beast in most people.
  Blasting up sand hills on roaring machinery brings out the beast in even the sweetest ladies.
  She brings out the beast in men (The Corsair howls at the moon).
  Rudely awakened, the Forester spots the Vixen, the sight of whom releases the beast in him, as in us all.
  To extract the best from himself, Hartson believes he must draw out the beast in himself.
  For some reason he was unable to see the beast in our sister.
  I like to try and manipulate the beast of the audience.
  This is why I shouldn't stop blogging, even if it brings out the beast in me.
  People who don't take responsibility for their lives is what brings out the beast in her.
  As Somerset have demonstrated so emphatically down at Taunton, the Australians bring out the beast in everyone.
6. 1.6informal with adjective A thing possessing a specified quality.
  that much-maligned beast, the rave record
  Example sentencesExamples
  This magnificent beast was obviously oblivious to our presence.
  Double acts are difficult beasts to sustain, and this cabaret partnership was no different.
  What is far more important to Bullfrog, a true Canadian beast, than who comprises the audience that comes to see them on any given night, is that there is an audience.
  Did you ever know that Miss USA is a whole different beast from Miss America?
  Look beneath the surface, though, and you discover an extra-ordinarily sophisticated beast, capable of producing shots that can be blown up to poster size.
  The European Commission is a very different beast.
  The trouble is, they have roused the enemy, and a galvanised Pakistan can be a dangerous beast.
  Now, I had actually seen a model for the park a couple of years ago, and had no doubt that this abstract beast was going to be a complete disaster.
  I had a busy day yesterday, as one is apt to do when one is on the hunt for that precarious beast called ‘a job.’
  Constitutional change is a dangerous beast, and it needs strong public support.
  He still had a mysterious air about him and I was afraid of the possessive beast that lurked just below the surface.
  Glacial beauty meets rock-dwelling beast on this undeniably epic LP by another Toronto band from the Broken Social Scene fold.
  But he was able to make an incredible impact through the sheer force of his intellect, which made him - even on the backbenches - a big political beast.
  Their music was a more aggressive, angular beast than that of Slint: screaming rage and explosions equally matched by a very rhythmic, fractured, sound.
  Not only was it that rare beast, a new opera, it was an opera that was Canadian to the core, with music by composer Estacio and a libretto by playwright Murrell.
  But it is, as I say, a very big beast, and it takes time.
  All humans are political beasts at some level so political leanings are unavoidable, especially in professional groups that deal with information.
  But the modern pensioner is an entirely different beast.
  Unknown to the vast majority of urban-dwelling Scots, this magnificent beast is the subject of one of the most bitter controversies ever to affect wildlife in this country.
  After that, there is the small matter of Lopez, who is that rare beast - a blond, blue-eyed Spaniard who serves and volleys for all he is worth.

Derivatives

beast-like

adjectiveˈbiːstlʌɪk

At times, he's crawling, beast-like across the floor, venting enough raw emotion and passion to land him the lead in a West End musical.
Example sentencesExamples
- This has enabled the human race to shift the condition of humanity from a beast-like going into the stall, or hunting in the woods, into the ability to have an intellectual life, a human form of cultural life.
- Children at Meridian Primary School have completed three murals showing monsters, goblins and other beast-like characters.
- The man uttered a guttural, beastlike sound.
- That is how the horned god came to be seen as the devil: a beastlike figure used by early Christians to engender fear of nature religions.
- In the late '50s, his paintings became populated with stumpy, beastlike figures, often adorned with military medals.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French beste, based on Latin bestia.

animal from Middle English:
Animals are so called simply because they breathe. The word, used as an adjective in English before the noun became established, originally described any living being, as opposed to something inanimate. Its source is the Latin word animalis, ‘having the breath of life’, from anima ‘air, breath, life’. As a noun, the word was hardly used in England before the end of the 16th century—the older beast (Middle English) from Latin besta was the usual term—and does not appear in the King James Bible of 1611. Animate (Late Middle English) is also from anima. See also mesmerize

Rhymes

arriviste, artiste, batiste, dirigiste, east, feast, least, Mideast, modiste, northeast, piste, priest, southeast, uncreased, unreleased, yeast

Definition of beast in US English:

beast

nounbistbēst

1An animal, especially a large or dangerous four-footed one.
a wild beast
Example sentencesExamples
- Sometimes, they were left to be eaten by insects or wild beasts.
- Instead it sounded like the roar of a beast, deep and dangerous.
- They soon are left on their own, protecting their herds from lions and other wild beasts.
- On landing, the astronaut ‘will be able to deal with wild beasts, sharks and other dangerous animals or enemies’, the website reported.
- These cunning warriors are trained from birth to hunt, track and trap the most dangerous beasts in the wild.
- Birds and forest creatures were peaceful here; there, nothing but wild beasts and scavengers roamed the land.
- Cages for beasts like tigers and lions are made of toughened glass with green plants inside.
- Shepherds, who tended their sheep in the forests, used to beat drums to ward off wild beasts from preying on the cattle.
- The same can be said of many of the contenders, but lurking in the jungle are some dangerous beasts.
- These ancient, wild beasts have become pocket-money pets.
- A baby animal might seem cute but potential owners should remember that a nine-inch baby lizard could well turn into a dangerous beast five or six feet long.
- So how about a wild beast which is half lion and half tiger?
- In Dawson, White Fang becomes an attraction, and people come to see the wild beast in the cage.
- She stood up and opened the cage, the beast followed her out and stayed by her side.
- Then the movie literally stops and begins anew, retelling a mythic tale about a wild beast and the hunter who must kill it or be devoured by it.
- However, some residents were a bit apprehensive about having wild carnivorous beasts in their midst.
- A beast is never so dangerous as when it is cornered or injured.
- Many appeared to be mixtures of wild beasts and reptiles.
- But, as has been proved so often in the past, a wounded Wallaby makes a dangerous beast.
- The Hokkaido wolf is a formidable beast but not dangerous to man as long as other prey is to be had for the killing.
1. 1.1usually beasts A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Used to be that farm beasts, cattle and sheep, sometimes even pigs, were herded into the fields after harvest, working over the stubble and roots.
  This was an irresistible combination - shame it had to close early but at least those noble beasts can enjoy the after show party down on the farm.
  According to him, this beast was quite an attraction at the farm and he said its presence will be missed.
  We conducted an impromptu windfall apple hunt, nearly as much fun as an Easter Egg hunt, and went to feed the greedy beasts.
  After the horses were well tied up, the driver spent a few minutes feeding the beasts and devising a plan to store his cart.
  If you get the cow near the top and push fast and heavily enough you'll tip the bovine beast.
  These are intelligent but domesticated beasts which have a telepathic link with their human riders, who are colonists on a distant planet.
  They cannot accept that they are just beings the same as pets, farm beasts, flowers, insects et al.
  A team from the farm and the auction mart spent several hours giving the beasts a wash and brush up before the sale on Tuesday.
  These very early domesticated beasts looked much like aurochsen; they were large and of very similar morphology.
  The huge antler spikes were within a few yards of her, and in a flash of numbing fear she remembered Mortimer's warning, to beware of horned beasts on the farm.
  A few years ago he'd often spot the wooly beasts on a neighbouring farm with huge sores on their backsides, weak and hardly able to stand.
  There was no room on the farm for any creature, man or beast, who could not perform its role.
  Under the fire of the sun, the world became green, the crops grew tall and strong, and the beasts of farm and field have grown fat and strong.
  The bovine beast had escaped from its pen in the Pattaya Naklua area in the early hours of the morning.
  Synonyms
  animal, creature, brute
2. 1.2humorous, archaic An animal as opposed to a human.
  the gift of reason differentiates humanity from the beasts
  Example sentencesExamples
  For Overton the line between human and beasts was rather unclear.
  If that was true, then these business people must be beasts in human form!
  At once, they were a group of humans, not rabid beasts and they felt fear.
  It chilled me due to the fact that it sounded more beast like than human.
  The media frenzy following her arrest portrayed an image of a person more beast than human.
  Mile upon mile of fir and silver birch forests with not a human or beast to be seen.
  Remember, one principle about humanity: The human race is unlike any beast.
  According to him, the second category of people, which did not contribute to science and knowledge, are more like beasts than human beings.
3. 1.3 An inhumanly cruel, violent, or depraved person.
  he is a filthy drunken beast
  Example sentencesExamples
  Some will be so sociopathic that they can't be treated as anything other than dangerous beasts.
  The guests of the banquet sway extraneously from portrayals as parasites, wild, carnivorous beasts and ravenous dogs to spoilt brats at a kid's party to well mannered socialites.
  However, his vapid surface concealed a beast, one that roared in violent protest.
  That sentence was increased after the intervention of the Home Secretary, who instead insisted on a whole life tariff for the sex beast.
  To top all this off, my horoscope read that I am a cruel heartless beast of a person.
  She reminds us that French revolutionary leaders were often portrayed as wild beasts or savage tigers by critics at the time and that the tiger in the poem is located in a nightmarish industrial landscape.
  I have been the cruelest of beasts, lying to you and all.
  I saw the transformation take place, the placid exterior to the violent, savage beast.
  The tender scene made her more determined to help find this inhuman beast and stop him from shattering any more lives.
  I also have nothing but praise for the police and law enforcement team - they did a great job and I am glad we have more tools such as DNA testing for catching and convicting sex beasts.
  But the second she became a traveling cohort she turned into a violent, raging beast.
  Synonyms
  monster, brute, savage, barbarian, animal, swine, pig, ogre, fiend, sadist, demon, devil
4. 1.4informal An objectionable or unpleasant person or thing.
  a scheming, manipulative little beast
  Example sentencesExamples
  And no, it's not what you're thinking, you dirty beast.
  Where a beautiful, intelligent young woman once stood was a beast of death and heartlessness.
  Ringing in his ears will be his father's warning ‘not to make a beast of yourself’.
  Now look here you filthy Russian beast.
  So I dumped a great girl and got involved with what turned out to be the psycho beast from hell.
  He obviously thinks I'm a psycho beast and didn't call me.
  He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
  Synonyms
  wretch
5. 1.5the beast A person's brutish or untamed characteristics.
  the beast in you is rearing its ugly head
  Example sentencesExamples
  As Somerset have demonstrated so emphatically down at Taunton, the Australians bring out the beast in everyone.
  I like to try and manipulate the beast of the audience.
  To extract the best from himself, Hartson believes he must draw out the beast in himself.
  Rudely awakened, the Forester spots the Vixen, the sight of whom releases the beast in him, as in us all.
  She brings out the beast in men (The Corsair howls at the moon).
  Blasting up sand hills on roaring machinery brings out the beast in even the sweetest ladies.
  Any situation that makes you anonymous and gives permission for aggression will bring out the beast in most people.
  I didn't want to do this, but the beast in me was telling me over and over again to do it.
  This is why I shouldn't stop blogging, even if it brings out the beast in me.
  People who don't take responsibility for their lives is what brings out the beast in her.
  For some reason he was unable to see the beast in our sister.
6. 1.6informal with adjective A thing or concept possessing a particular quality.
  that much-maligned beast, the rave record
  Example sentencesExamples
  Not only was it that rare beast, a new opera, it was an opera that was Canadian to the core, with music by composer Estacio and a libretto by playwright Murrell.
  Constitutional change is a dangerous beast, and it needs strong public support.
  The trouble is, they have roused the enemy, and a galvanised Pakistan can be a dangerous beast.
  Did you ever know that Miss USA is a whole different beast from Miss America?
  Now, I had actually seen a model for the park a couple of years ago, and had no doubt that this abstract beast was going to be a complete disaster.
  Double acts are difficult beasts to sustain, and this cabaret partnership was no different.
  He still had a mysterious air about him and I was afraid of the possessive beast that lurked just below the surface.
  Look beneath the surface, though, and you discover an extra-ordinarily sophisticated beast, capable of producing shots that can be blown up to poster size.
  But it is, as I say, a very big beast, and it takes time.
  What is far more important to Bullfrog, a true Canadian beast, than who comprises the audience that comes to see them on any given night, is that there is an audience.
  All humans are political beasts at some level so political leanings are unavoidable, especially in professional groups that deal with information.
  Glacial beauty meets rock-dwelling beast on this undeniably epic LP by another Toronto band from the Broken Social Scene fold.
  I had a busy day yesterday, as one is apt to do when one is on the hunt for that precarious beast called ‘a job.’
  This magnificent beast was obviously oblivious to our presence.
  But he was able to make an incredible impact through the sheer force of his intellect, which made him - even on the backbenches - a big political beast.
  Unknown to the vast majority of urban-dwelling Scots, this magnificent beast is the subject of one of the most bitter controversies ever to affect wildlife in this country.
  The European Commission is a very different beast.
  Their music was a more aggressive, angular beast than that of Slint: screaming rage and explosions equally matched by a very rhythmic, fractured, sound.
  But the modern pensioner is an entirely different beast.
  After that, there is the small matter of Lopez, who is that rare beast - a blond, blue-eyed Spaniard who serves and volleys for all he is worth.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French beste, based on Latin bestia.

单词	beast
释义	Definition of beast in English: beast noun biːstbist 1An animal, especially a large or dangerous four-footed one. a wild beast Example sentencesExamples Cages for beasts like tigers and lions are made of toughened glass with green plants inside. However, some residents were a bit apprehensive about having wild carnivorous beasts in their midst. She stood up and opened the cage, the beast followed her out and stayed by her side. The Hokkaido wolf is a formidable beast but not dangerous to man as long as other prey is to be had for the killing. Shepherds, who tended their sheep in the forests, used to beat drums to ward off wild beasts from preying on the cattle. On landing, the astronaut ‘will be able to deal with wild beasts, sharks and other dangerous animals or enemies’, the website reported. Birds and forest creatures were peaceful here; there, nothing but wild beasts and scavengers roamed the land. Many appeared to be mixtures of wild beasts and reptiles. Then the movie literally stops and begins anew, retelling a mythic tale about a wild beast and the hunter who must kill it or be devoured by it. So how about a wild beast which is half lion and half tiger? They soon are left on their own, protecting their herds from lions and other wild beasts. These ancient, wild beasts have become pocket-money pets. A baby animal might seem cute but potential owners should remember that a nine-inch baby lizard could well turn into a dangerous beast five or six feet long. The same can be said of many of the contenders, but lurking in the jungle are some dangerous beasts. Instead it sounded like the roar of a beast, deep and dangerous. Sometimes, they were left to be eaten by insects or wild beasts. But, as has been proved so often in the past, a wounded Wallaby makes a dangerous beast. These cunning warriors are trained from birth to hunt, track and trap the most dangerous beasts in the wild. A beast is never so dangerous as when it is cornered or injured. In Dawson, White Fang becomes an attraction, and people come to see the wild beast in the cage. 1.1usually beasts A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal. mucking out and feeding the beasts is a big job Example sentencesExamples Used to be that farm beasts, cattle and sheep, sometimes even pigs, were herded into the fields after harvest, working over the stubble and roots. A few years ago he'd often spot the wooly beasts on a neighbouring farm with huge sores on their backsides, weak and hardly able to stand. These are intelligent but domesticated beasts which have a telepathic link with their human riders, who are colonists on a distant planet. There was no room on the farm for any creature, man or beast, who could not perform its role. This was an irresistible combination - shame it had to close early but at least those noble beasts can enjoy the after show party down on the farm. We conducted an impromptu windfall apple hunt, nearly as much fun as an Easter Egg hunt, and went to feed the greedy beasts. The huge antler spikes were within a few yards of her, and in a flash of numbing fear she remembered Mortimer's warning, to beware of horned beasts on the farm. According to him, this beast was quite an attraction at the farm and he said its presence will be missed. A team from the farm and the auction mart spent several hours giving the beasts a wash and brush up before the sale on Tuesday. If you get the cow near the top and push fast and heavily enough you'll tip the bovine beast. The bovine beast had escaped from its pen in the Pattaya Naklua area in the early hours of the morning. After the horses were well tied up, the driver spent a few minutes feeding the beasts and devising a plan to store his cart. Under the fire of the sun, the world became green, the crops grew tall and strong, and the beasts of farm and field have grown fat and strong. These very early domesticated beasts looked much like aurochsen; they were large and of very similar morphology. They cannot accept that they are just beings the same as pets, farm beasts, flowers, insects et al. Synonyms animal, creature, brute North American informal critter 1.2humorous, archaic An animal as opposed to a human. the gift of reason differentiates humanity from the beasts Example sentencesExamples At once, they were a group of humans, not rabid beasts and they felt fear. According to him, the second category of people, which did not contribute to science and knowledge, are more like beasts than human beings. If that was true, then these business people must be beasts in human form! Mile upon mile of fir and silver birch forests with not a human or beast to be seen. For Overton the line between human and beasts was rather unclear. The media frenzy following her arrest portrayed an image of a person more beast than human. Remember, one principle about humanity: The human race is unlike any beast. It chilled me due to the fact that it sounded more beast like than human. 1.3 An inhumanly cruel, violent, or depraved person. he is a filthy drunken beast sex beasts who are assaulting victims Example sentencesExamples I also have nothing but praise for the police and law enforcement team - they did a great job and I am glad we have more tools such as DNA testing for catching and convicting sex beasts. That sentence was increased after the intervention of the Home Secretary, who instead insisted on a whole life tariff for the sex beast. The guests of the banquet sway extraneously from portrayals as parasites, wild, carnivorous beasts and ravenous dogs to spoilt brats at a kid's party to well mannered socialites. I saw the transformation take place, the placid exterior to the violent, savage beast. But the second she became a traveling cohort she turned into a violent, raging beast. She reminds us that French revolutionary leaders were often portrayed as wild beasts or savage tigers by critics at the time and that the tiger in the poem is located in a nightmarish industrial landscape. I have been the cruelest of beasts, lying to you and all. However, his vapid surface concealed a beast, one that roared in violent protest. To top all this off, my horoscope read that I am a cruel heartless beast of a person. Some will be so sociopathic that they can't be treated as anything other than dangerous beasts. The tender scene made her more determined to help find this inhuman beast and stop him from shattering any more lives. Synonyms monster, brute, savage, barbarian, animal, swine, pig, ogre, fiend, sadist, demon, devil 1.4informal An objectionable or unpleasant person or thing. a scheming, manipulative little beast Example sentencesExamples Ringing in his ears will be his father's warning ‘not to make a beast of yourself’. He obviously thinks I'm a psycho beast and didn't call me. Now look here you filthy Russian beast. Where a beautiful, intelligent young woman once stood was a beast of death and heartlessness. So I dumped a great girl and got involved with what turned out to be the psycho beast from hell. He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. And no, it's not what you're thinking, you dirty beast. Synonyms wretch 1.5the beast A person's brutish or untamed characteristics. the beast in you is rearing its ugly head Example sentencesExamples I didn't want to do this, but the beast in me was telling me over and over again to do it. Any situation that makes you anonymous and gives permission for aggression will bring out the beast in most people. Blasting up sand hills on roaring machinery brings out the beast in even the sweetest ladies. She brings out the beast in men (The Corsair howls at the moon). Rudely awakened, the Forester spots the Vixen, the sight of whom releases the beast in him, as in us all. To extract the best from himself, Hartson believes he must draw out the beast in himself. For some reason he was unable to see the beast in our sister. I like to try and manipulate the beast of the audience. This is why I shouldn't stop blogging, even if it brings out the beast in me. People who don't take responsibility for their lives is what brings out the beast in her. As Somerset have demonstrated so emphatically down at Taunton, the Australians bring out the beast in everyone. 1.6informal with adjective A thing possessing a specified quality. that much-maligned beast, the rave record Example sentencesExamples This magnificent beast was obviously oblivious to our presence. Double acts are difficult beasts to sustain, and this cabaret partnership was no different. What is far more important to Bullfrog, a true Canadian beast, than who comprises the audience that comes to see them on any given night, is that there is an audience. Did you ever know that Miss USA is a whole different beast from Miss America? Look beneath the surface, though, and you discover an extra-ordinarily sophisticated beast, capable of producing shots that can be blown up to poster size. The European Commission is a very different beast. The trouble is, they have roused the enemy, and a galvanised Pakistan can be a dangerous beast. Now, I had actually seen a model for the park a couple of years ago, and had no doubt that this abstract beast was going to be a complete disaster. I had a busy day yesterday, as one is apt to do when one is on the hunt for that precarious beast called ‘a job.’ Constitutional change is a dangerous beast, and it needs strong public support. He still had a mysterious air about him and I was afraid of the possessive beast that lurked just below the surface. Glacial beauty meets rock-dwelling beast on this undeniably epic LP by another Toronto band from the Broken Social Scene fold. But he was able to make an incredible impact through the sheer force of his intellect, which made him - even on the backbenches - a big political beast. Their music was a more aggressive, angular beast than that of Slint: screaming rage and explosions equally matched by a very rhythmic, fractured, sound. Not only was it that rare beast, a new opera, it was an opera that was Canadian to the core, with music by composer Estacio and a libretto by playwright Murrell. But it is, as I say, a very big beast, and it takes time. All humans are political beasts at some level so political leanings are unavoidable, especially in professional groups that deal with information. But the modern pensioner is an entirely different beast. Unknown to the vast majority of urban-dwelling Scots, this magnificent beast is the subject of one of the most bitter controversies ever to affect wildlife in this country. After that, there is the small matter of Lopez, who is that rare beast - a blond, blue-eyed Spaniard who serves and volleys for all he is worth. Derivatives beast-like adjectiveˈbiːstlʌɪk At times, he's crawling, beast-like across the floor, venting enough raw emotion and passion to land him the lead in a West End musical. Example sentencesExamples This has enabled the human race to shift the condition of humanity from a beast-like going into the stall, or hunting in the woods, into the ability to have an intellectual life, a human form of cultural life. Children at Meridian Primary School have completed three murals showing monsters, goblins and other beast-like characters. The man uttered a guttural, beastlike sound. That is how the horned god came to be seen as the devil: a beastlike figure used by early Christians to engender fear of nature religions. In the late '50s, his paintings became populated with stumpy, beastlike figures, often adorned with military medals. Origin Middle English: from Old French beste, based on Latin bestia. animal from Middle English: Animals are so called simply because they breathe. The word, used as an adjective in English before the noun became established, originally described any living being, as opposed to something inanimate. Its source is the Latin word animalis, ‘having the breath of life’, from anima ‘air, breath, life’. As a noun, the word was hardly used in England before the end of the 16th century—the older beast (Middle English) from Latin besta was the usual term—and does not appear in the King James Bible of 1611. Animate (Late Middle English) is also from anima. See also mesmerize Rhymes arriviste, artiste, batiste, dirigiste, east, feast, least, Mideast, modiste, northeast, piste, priest, southeast, uncreased, unreleased, yeast Definition of beast in US English: beast nounbistbēst 1An animal, especially a large or dangerous four-footed one. a wild beast Example sentencesExamples Sometimes, they were left to be eaten by insects or wild beasts. Instead it sounded like the roar of a beast, deep and dangerous. They soon are left on their own, protecting their herds from lions and other wild beasts. On landing, the astronaut ‘will be able to deal with wild beasts, sharks and other dangerous animals or enemies’, the website reported. These cunning warriors are trained from birth to hunt, track and trap the most dangerous beasts in the wild. Birds and forest creatures were peaceful here; there, nothing but wild beasts and scavengers roamed the land. Cages for beasts like tigers and lions are made of toughened glass with green plants inside. Shepherds, who tended their sheep in the forests, used to beat drums to ward off wild beasts from preying on the cattle. The same can be said of many of the contenders, but lurking in the jungle are some dangerous beasts. These ancient, wild beasts have become pocket-money pets. A baby animal might seem cute but potential owners should remember that a nine-inch baby lizard could well turn into a dangerous beast five or six feet long. So how about a wild beast which is half lion and half tiger? In Dawson, White Fang becomes an attraction, and people come to see the wild beast in the cage. She stood up and opened the cage, the beast followed her out and stayed by her side. Then the movie literally stops and begins anew, retelling a mythic tale about a wild beast and the hunter who must kill it or be devoured by it. However, some residents were a bit apprehensive about having wild carnivorous beasts in their midst. A beast is never so dangerous as when it is cornered or injured. Many appeared to be mixtures of wild beasts and reptiles. But, as has been proved so often in the past, a wounded Wallaby makes a dangerous beast. The Hokkaido wolf is a formidable beast but not dangerous to man as long as other prey is to be had for the killing. 1.1usually beasts A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal. Example sentencesExamples Used to be that farm beasts, cattle and sheep, sometimes even pigs, were herded into the fields after harvest, working over the stubble and roots. This was an irresistible combination - shame it had to close early but at least those noble beasts can enjoy the after show party down on the farm. According to him, this beast was quite an attraction at the farm and he said its presence will be missed. We conducted an impromptu windfall apple hunt, nearly as much fun as an Easter Egg hunt, and went to feed the greedy beasts. After the horses were well tied up, the driver spent a few minutes feeding the beasts and devising a plan to store his cart. If you get the cow near the top and push fast and heavily enough you'll tip the bovine beast. These are intelligent but domesticated beasts which have a telepathic link with their human riders, who are colonists on a distant planet. They cannot accept that they are just beings the same as pets, farm beasts, flowers, insects et al. A team from the farm and the auction mart spent several hours giving the beasts a wash and brush up before the sale on Tuesday. These very early domesticated beasts looked much like aurochsen; they were large and of very similar morphology. The huge antler spikes were within a few yards of her, and in a flash of numbing fear she remembered Mortimer's warning, to beware of horned beasts on the farm. A few years ago he'd often spot the wooly beasts on a neighbouring farm with huge sores on their backsides, weak and hardly able to stand. There was no room on the farm for any creature, man or beast, who could not perform its role. Under the fire of the sun, the world became green, the crops grew tall and strong, and the beasts of farm and field have grown fat and strong. The bovine beast had escaped from its pen in the Pattaya Naklua area in the early hours of the morning. Synonyms animal, creature, brute 1.2humorous, archaic An animal as opposed to a human. the gift of reason differentiates humanity from the beasts Example sentencesExamples For Overton the line between human and beasts was rather unclear. If that was true, then these business people must be beasts in human form! At once, they were a group of humans, not rabid beasts and they felt fear. It chilled me due to the fact that it sounded more beast like than human. The media frenzy following her arrest portrayed an image of a person more beast than human. Mile upon mile of fir and silver birch forests with not a human or beast to be seen. Remember, one principle about humanity: The human race is unlike any beast. According to him, the second category of people, which did not contribute to science and knowledge, are more like beasts than human beings. 1.3 An inhumanly cruel, violent, or depraved person. he is a filthy drunken beast Example sentencesExamples Some will be so sociopathic that they can't be treated as anything other than dangerous beasts. The guests of the banquet sway extraneously from portrayals as parasites, wild, carnivorous beasts and ravenous dogs to spoilt brats at a kid's party to well mannered socialites. However, his vapid surface concealed a beast, one that roared in violent protest. That sentence was increased after the intervention of the Home Secretary, who instead insisted on a whole life tariff for the sex beast. To top all this off, my horoscope read that I am a cruel heartless beast of a person. She reminds us that French revolutionary leaders were often portrayed as wild beasts or savage tigers by critics at the time and that the tiger in the poem is located in a nightmarish industrial landscape. I have been the cruelest of beasts, lying to you and all. I saw the transformation take place, the placid exterior to the violent, savage beast. The tender scene made her more determined to help find this inhuman beast and stop him from shattering any more lives. I also have nothing but praise for the police and law enforcement team - they did a great job and I am glad we have more tools such as DNA testing for catching and convicting sex beasts. But the second she became a traveling cohort she turned into a violent, raging beast. Synonyms monster, brute, savage, barbarian, animal, swine, pig, ogre, fiend, sadist, demon, devil 1.4informal An objectionable or unpleasant person or thing. a scheming, manipulative little beast Example sentencesExamples And no, it's not what you're thinking, you dirty beast. Where a beautiful, intelligent young woman once stood was a beast of death and heartlessness. Ringing in his ears will be his father's warning ‘not to make a beast of yourself’. Now look here you filthy Russian beast. So I dumped a great girl and got involved with what turned out to be the psycho beast from hell. He obviously thinks I'm a psycho beast and didn't call me. He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. Synonyms wretch 1.5the beast A person's brutish or untamed characteristics. the beast in you is rearing its ugly head Example sentencesExamples As Somerset have demonstrated so emphatically down at Taunton, the Australians bring out the beast in everyone. I like to try and manipulate the beast of the audience. To extract the best from himself, Hartson believes he must draw out the beast in himself. Rudely awakened, the Forester spots the Vixen, the sight of whom releases the beast in him, as in us all. She brings out the beast in men (The Corsair howls at the moon). Blasting up sand hills on roaring machinery brings out the beast in even the sweetest ladies. Any situation that makes you anonymous and gives permission for aggression will bring out the beast in most people. I didn't want to do this, but the beast in me was telling me over and over again to do it. This is why I shouldn't stop blogging, even if it brings out the beast in me. People who don't take responsibility for their lives is what brings out the beast in her. For some reason he was unable to see the beast in our sister. 1.6informal with adjective A thing or concept possessing a particular quality. that much-maligned beast, the rave record Example sentencesExamples Not only was it that rare beast, a new opera, it was an opera that was Canadian to the core, with music by composer Estacio and a libretto by playwright Murrell. Constitutional change is a dangerous beast, and it needs strong public support. The trouble is, they have roused the enemy, and a galvanised Pakistan can be a dangerous beast. Did you ever know that Miss USA is a whole different beast from Miss America? Now, I had actually seen a model for the park a couple of years ago, and had no doubt that this abstract beast was going to be a complete disaster. Double acts are difficult beasts to sustain, and this cabaret partnership was no different. He still had a mysterious air about him and I was afraid of the possessive beast that lurked just below the surface. Look beneath the surface, though, and you discover an extra-ordinarily sophisticated beast, capable of producing shots that can be blown up to poster size. But it is, as I say, a very big beast, and it takes time. What is far more important to Bullfrog, a true Canadian beast, than who comprises the audience that comes to see them on any given night, is that there is an audience. All humans are political beasts at some level so political leanings are unavoidable, especially in professional groups that deal with information. Glacial beauty meets rock-dwelling beast on this undeniably epic LP by another Toronto band from the Broken Social Scene fold. I had a busy day yesterday, as one is apt to do when one is on the hunt for that precarious beast called ‘a job.’ This magnificent beast was obviously oblivious to our presence. But he was able to make an incredible impact through the sheer force of his intellect, which made him - even on the backbenches - a big political beast. Unknown to the vast majority of urban-dwelling Scots, this magnificent beast is the subject of one of the most bitter controversies ever to affect wildlife in this country. The European Commission is a very different beast. Their music was a more aggressive, angular beast than that of Slint: screaming rage and explosions equally matched by a very rhythmic, fractured, sound. But the modern pensioner is an entirely different beast. After that, there is the small matter of Lopez, who is that rare beast - a blond, blue-eyed Spaniard who serves and volleys for all he is worth. Origin Middle English: from Old French beste, based on Latin bestia.
随便看	moderate moderate breeze moderated moderate gale moderately moderately moderately good moderately priced moderateness moderateness moderatenesses moderates moderateur moderating moderation moderation moderationism moderationisms moderationist moderationists Moderations moderatism moderatism moderatisms moderatist