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noun ADJ. big, huge, large | ugly | bug-eyed, hairy, scaly cheap sci-fi films with bug-eyed monsters | evil | alien, mythical, prehistoric | sea | sex The tabloid papers labelled him ‘an evil sex monster’. | Frankenstein's Bad organizations are self-created Frankenstein's monsters, beyond the control or influence of their leaders. VERB + MONSTER create (often figurative) The government has created a bureaucratic monster. | fight (often figurative) I wanted to fight these monsters: I didn't want to go on living with them. | be inhabited by a barren wilderness inhabited by monsters MONSTER + VERB devour sb/sth
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