Moloch
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice
the great Moloch of war
Types & categories
- power hypernym
Sense 2 noun
god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children
Types & categories
- Semitic deity instance hypernym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | power |
| 2 | instance hypernym | Types & categories | Semitic deity |