beast vs phoenix

beast

noun
  • A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal. 

  • Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically. 

  • Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones. 

  • Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength. 

  • A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner. 

  • A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal. 

  • A sex offender. 

  • Something unpleasant and difficult. 

  • A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one. 

verb
  • to engage in sexual intercourse, particularly in an illicit context 

  • to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment. 

adj
  • great; excellent; powerful 

phoenix

noun
  • A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang. 

  • A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta. 

  • A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes. 

  • Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed. 

verb
  • To transfer assets from one company to another to dodge liability 

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