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fiend

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Word definitions for fiend in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN dope ▪ We pour another glass and vent our spleen on drug barons and dope fiends . ▪ It was bad to see him that way, angry and shivering a little like a dope fiend . EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a sports fiend EXAMPLES ...

Usage examples of fiend.

Then those High Guards had fought like fiends, inflicting appalling losses on the Mandrocs.

I have been a fiend when I thought myself the grandest of men, yea, a very avenging angel out of heaven.

Happy Valley from clientship when Uttern Carcolo, an accomplished dragon-breeder, produced the first Fiends.

For example, a common error of some police investigators is to assess a particularly lust-mutilation murder as the work of a sex fiend and to direct the investigation toward known sex offenders, when, in fact such crimes are commonly perpetrated by individuals with no criminal record.

Bestesbulzibar but realized he was powerless against the fiend, realized he had fallen to the dactyl and that he could not escape.

The fiend had bare departed when Ailie came over the threshold to find the auld carline glunching over the fire.

And I will send you guerdonless to the foul fiend, if you prate of Lady Inger but one unseemly word more.

At the close of this sentence another flash of lightning again made darkness visible, and Glendower, beholding the countenance of his companion, again recoiled: for its mingled haggardness and triumph seemed to his excited imagination the very expression of a fiend!

The man who had spoken to Jorn was the fiend who had murdered Lewis Lemand and Rufus Moreland.

There Joaz Banbeck may be expected to discover you, and you must deploy so that when he brings up his Juggers you can topple them back with Fiends.

Nevertheless, the attack served its own purpose, allowing him to bring his knights, Fiends and Juggers down from Northguard before Carcolo could gain the heights of Barch Spike.

His Fiends burrowed ever deeper into the crazed and almost helpless Banbeck Juggers, while the Carcolo Murderers and Blue Horrors held back the Banbeck Fiends.

Banbeck Fiends had almost reached his Juggers, who were backing slowly, with heads lowered, fangs fully extended.

The Fiends slit its belly, and now Carcolo had only five Juggers left.

They tell how the first queen of our line had traffic with a fiend of darkness and bore him a daughter who lives in foul legendry to this day.