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Frank·en·stein (fraŋ′kən stīn′)
noun
- the title character in a novel (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: he is a young medical student who creates a monster that destroys him
- popularly Frankenstein's monster
- any person destroyed by his or her own creation
- anything that becomes dangerous to its creator
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