beast
//biːst//
Forms
- Plural
- beasts
- Comparative
- more beast
- Superlative
- most beast
- present (v1)
- beast
- past (v2)
- beasted
- past participle (v3)
- beasted
- present participle
- beasting
- 3rd person singular
- beasts
Definitions
1.Any four-footed land mammal.
- Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
2.All non-human animals seen as a group.
- Language is what separates man and beast.
3.A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
4.A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
- Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
1.To impose arduous exercise upon, either as training or as punishment.
2.To bully or harass.(slang)
3.To engage in sexual intercourse with, particularly in an illicit context.(slang)
- That teacher is under investigation for beasting wee 'uns.
1.great; excellent; powerful(slang)
- Translation: a piece of crap, but the rest of the car was totally beast.
- There is another type from Siemens which is the HYB 39S64XXX(AT/ATL) -8B version (notice the "B" and the end) which is totally beast altogether.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3575
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English beeste, beste
From Old French beste (French bête)
From Latin bēstia (“animal, beast”); many cognates – see bēstia.