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1. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement
   - animal, animate being, brute, creature, fauna
    
2. A cruelly rapacious person
   - wolf, savage, brute, wildcat [informal]
    
3. Something large and impressive, esp. when difficult or unpleasant to manage
    
4. Any non-human animal, esp. a land-living mammal
   - animal
    
5. A particular kind of person or thing
   "he's a strange beast";
   - animal

Derived forms: beasts

Type of: aggressor, assailant, assailer, assaulter, attacker, being, organism

Part of: animal kingdom, Animalia, kingdom Animalia

Encyclopedia: Beast