Crossword-Solution: BEHEMOTH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Behemoth | n. | An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24. |
We have 33 clues for the answer “BEHEMOTH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Mastodon for one | 1 answer |
| Huge, powerful thing | 1 answer |
| Huge or monstrous person or thing | 1 answer |
| Huge monster | 1 answer |
| Huge creature | 1 answer |
| Huge animal. | 1 answer |
| Job's hippo? | 1 answer |
| Godzilla or King Kong | 1 answer |
| Enormous one | 1 answer |
| Creature of monstrous size and power | 1 answer |
| Big beast | 1 answer |
| Mastodon, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Old Testament creature | 1 answer |
| Something huge | 1 answer |
| Something monster-sized | 1 answer |
| enormous creature | 1 answer |
| huge person or thing | 1 answer |
| Monstrous creature | 2 answers |
| Powerful Giant | 2 answers |
| Biblical beast | 3 answers |
| hippopotamus | 3 answers |
| HUGE thing | 4 answers |
| OLD Testament animal | 4 answers |
| *Colossus | 5 answers |
| BUSHEL BIBLICAL BEAST | 10 answers |
| Elephant | 15 answers |
| Leviathan | 17 answers |
| Whale | 38 answers |
| Beast | 41 answers |
| Monster | 59 answers |
| Mammoth | 60 answers |
| ANIMAL, species or type of | 66 answers |
| Giant | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BEHEMOTH (5)
See Letter.] The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: Ð Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness.
Only her family knew she was lazy as a behemoth, untidy about her person, and as sentimental as a hungry shark.
When the tide is running out swiftly, I have a splendid fight to get through the bridges, but always make it a rule to beat,—though I have been jammed up into pretty tight places at times, and was caught once between a vessel swinging round and the pier, until our bones (the boat’s, that is) cracked as if we had been in the jaws of Behemoth.
Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail round the high-pooped galleys, as they do on the delightful maps of those ages when books on geography were actually readable.
Nay more, where there is no record, and history is either lost, or was never written, Criticism can re-create the past for us from the very smallest fragment of language or art, just as surely as the man of science can from some tiny bone, or the mere impress of a foot upon a rock, re-create for us the winged dragon or Titan lizard that once made the earth shake beneath its tread, can call Behemoth out of his cave, and make Leviathan swim once more across the startled sea.
Quotes with BEHEMOTH (3)
Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.
Being captain of such a vessel was not a stressful job, despite the sheer size of the thing. Everything was automated, and this meant that this behemoth could be efficiently handled by a far less seasoned captain. Besides, hiring mature skippers with actual experience would cost real money. And hey, the computers ran everything anyway — and that’s how Bran Johannsen enters this story — as a fine young inexperienced graduate of the Merchant Space Academy in Mars City, who only…
Fireflies out on a warm summer's night, seeing the urgent, flashing, yellow-white phosphorescence below them, go crazy with desire; moths cast to the winds an enchantment potion that draws the opposite sex, wings beating hurriedly, from kilometers away; peacocks display a devastating corona of blue and green and the peahens are all aflutter; competing pollen grains extrude tiny tubes that race each other down the female flower's orifice to the waiting egg below; luminescent s…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1958–2021).