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Frankenstein

noun

  1. the title character in a novel (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: he is a young medical student who creates a monster that destroys him
  2. popularly Frankenstein's monster
  3. any person destroyed by his or her own creation
  4. anything that becomes dangerous to its creator

See Frankenstein in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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