(n.) A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lamia Shakkour reacted angrily to reports she was stepping down in protest at attacks on civilians by President Bashar al-Assad's forces, saying the announcement was "misinformation" and "identity theft".
(2) There’s no disrespect to gays.” Meanwhile: best crackdown Greece: PAS Lamia’s Sierra Leone player John Kamara – suspended by his club on health grounds after his trip to Ebola-free Cameroon – facing sanctions for wearing a protest T-shirt reading: “We are West Africans, We are not a virus.” The FA charged him for breaching its anti-racism code, and plans to rule this week.
(3) It is important to be fair to both parties and the heritage itself.” During this year's meeting Syria’s ambassador to Unesco, Lamia Chakkour, acknowledged damage done to Aleppo, but argued against placing all six sites on the danger list.
(4) In the Lamia Plain, Greece, 12 years after the cessation of DDT spraying, Anopheles sacharovi is still present in very high densities and appears to have the same biting habits and host preferences as previously.
(5) The subfornical organ, the organon vasculosum lamia terminalis, the subcommissural organ, the area postrema all contained significant quantities of both releasing factors.
Witch
Definition:
(n.) A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
(n.) One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.
(n.) An ugly old woman; a hag.
(n.) One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; -- said especially of a woman or child.
(n.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
(n.) The stormy petrel.
(v. t.) To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.
Example Sentences:
(1) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
(2) "I have been an evil witch, but now I can set light to the house and die happy."
(3) The experience of having had intercourse with the devil has in the past been regarded as evidence that the individual is a witch.
(4) Smith, a climate change sceptic who has also subpoenaed government scientists’ communications, has accused the attorney generals of a political witch-hunt and for causing a “chilling impact on scientific research and development”.
(5) In 2005, four years after Adam's body was found, two women and a man were convicted of child cruelty for torturing and threatening to kill an orphaned refugee who they claimed was a witch.
(6) The Witch Is Dead, the Wizard of Oz song which became the focus of an anti-Thatcher campaign on Facebook, was not just about where it would chart – but how much of it the BBC would play.
(7) A couple have been jailed for life for torturing and drowning a teenage boy they accused of being a witch.
(8) Leave voters, including a soldier, a mother expecting a “Brexit baby” due nine months after the vote, a rare chicken breeder, a witch, and a hammer-wielding Nigel Farage fan, have all been chosen to represent the various faces of Brexit on a new vase by the artist Grayson Perry .
(9) On Christmas Day 2010, Kristy's killer spoke to the boy's father, Pierre, accusing the 15-year-old of being a witch and threatening to kill him.
(10) Social unrest has become more and more likely, leading to an increasingly bold witch-hunt by the government against opposition voices .
(11) Lee denied the charges, saying he had never heard of the Revolutionary Organisation and denouncing the trial as a politically motivated witch-hunt by intelligence officials.
(12) The government has launched a separate royal commission into alleged union corruption, which unions have argued is a politically motivated “witch hunt”.
(13) Sure, the season’s story, which focuses on Vanessa Ives’s struggle to decode the “memoirs of the devil” and fight a hissing viper pit of Lucifer’s witches, may be pure pulp burlesque, but that’s just the first layer of Penny Dreadful’s charm.
(14) I could be the most beautiful drag queen in the world and the most evil witch of a person.
(15) Human rights campaigners have called on South Korea’s military to end its “witch-hunt” against gay servicemen, after an investigation into dozens of men prompted debate among presidential candidates over the country’s poor record on LGBT rights.
(16) "If we don't push home the idea that calling a child a witch will have grave consequences, then we will continue to have these kind of cases," said Ariyo.
(17) At one point, Evans was accused of bullying staff 20 years ago – a claim he said was ridiculous and the result of a witch-hunt.
(18) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
(19) After working in a second-rate singing act with her older sisters and changing her name from Frances Gumm to Judy Garland, she was taken to Hollywood at the age of 13 by her fiercely ambitious mother (whom she later called "the real Wicked Witch of the West").
(20) He tried to capture its character – which he described as a “diabolical contraption, a dusty hunk of electric and mechanical hardware that reminded me of the disturbing 1950’s Quatermass science fiction television series” – in a near-lifesize two metre by three metre Portrait of a Dead Witch, which he also intended as a joke about the contemporary craze for computer-generated art.