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Juggernaut Definition

Jug·ger·naut (jugər nôt′)

noun

  1. an incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu, whose idol, it was formerly supposed, so excited his worshipers when it was hauled along on a large car during religious rites that they threw themselves under the wheels and were crushed
  2. anything that exacts blind devotion or terrible sacrifice
  3. any relentless, destructive, irresistible force

Etymology: altered < Hindi Jagannāth < Sans Jagannātha, lord of the world < jagat, world + nātha, lord

Juggernaut Usage Examples

Preposition: of

thing: Waterloo, tho, is massive; a great juggernaut of a thing.

Converse of object

  • drive: Steering an eight is like trying to drive a juggernaut from the back.
  • stop: The Greeks would have to summon all their strength to stop the Persian juggernaut.
  • create: Other alliances, with organic food growers and protectionist food organizations in France and England, created a juggernaut against GM food.
  • alter: Return to table of contents Can you and I do anything to alter significantly the technological juggernaut that is transforming society?
  • articulate: This is your chance - have a driving lesson in a massive articulated juggernaut, and see if you can handle this giant.

Adjective modifier

  • unstoppable: Today secularism is ' far from being an unstoppable juggernaut ' ; indeed its future appears less certain than that of religion.
  • technological: In the end, we will find that the technological juggernaut is identical in nature with the System.
  • corporate: For a while, we stopped the corporate juggernaut.
  • massive: Imagine driving on a dual five lane section of the M1 at a maximum of 50 mph sandwiched on all sides by massive juggernauts.
  • great: Waterloo, tho, is massive; a great juggernaut of a thing.
  • musical: He spent much of the 1990s performing with his brother Django Bates ' in his musical juggernaut Delightful Precipice.

Modifies a noun

  • lorry: It only needs one juggernaut lorry to go past your house to wake you up.
  • unit: Defeat one of the seven juggernaut units, then defeat the remaining ones in less than five minutes.
  • roll: The Higgins juggernaut rolls on, through frame five with another commanding break.

Noun used with modifier

  • globalization: The globalization juggernaut will continue to flatten everything in its path.
  • retailing: Answer: Apparently, when you're Tesco, the UK retailing juggernaut.
  • midnight: Midnight Juggernauts - 45 & Rising ( Cut Copy Remix ) 13.
  • regulation: That's why we must halt Labor's regulation juggernaut.

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