Fiend

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An evil spirit; a demon.
  • noun. The Devil; Satan.
  • noun. A diabolically evil or wicked person.
  • noun. One who is addicted to something.
  • noun. One who is completely absorbed in or obsessed with a given job or pastime.
  • noun. One who is particularly adept at something.
  • intransitive verb. To crave (a drug, for example).
  • intransitive verb. To have an intense desire for something.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An enemy; a foe.
  • noun. Specifically, the enemy of mankind; Satan; the devil.
  • noun. Hence, in a general sense, a devil; a demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit.
  • noun. An exceedingly wicked, cruel, spiteful, or destructive person: as, a dynamite fiend; a fire fiend.
  • noun. A person who gives great annoyance; a persistent bore: as, the newspaper fiend; the hand-organ fiend.
  • noun. Synonyms See devil.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A demon
  • noun. A very evil person
  • noun. An addict
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a cruel wicked and inhuman person
  • noun. an evil supernatural being
  • noun. a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)
  • Word Usage
    "Or shall we consider them as embodied in the word fiend, and call him Lincoln, the Fiend?"
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