beast
noun [C] /biːst/Definition
› formal an animal, especially a large or wild one: a wild beast The room wasn't fit for man or beast.General and informal words for animals › old-fashioned an unpleasant, annoying, or cruel person: He was a beast to her throughout their marriage.Unpleasant people in generalUnpleasant men
(Definition of beast noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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