Juggernaut
noun
- 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
- anything that exacts blind devotion or terrible sacrifice
- any relentless, destructive, irresistible force
See Juggernaut in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(jŭgˈər-nôtˌ)
noun- Something, such as a belief or institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed.
- An overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path: “It doesn't assume that people need necessarily remain passive when confronted by what appears to be the juggernaut of history” (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt).
- Juggernaut Used as a title for the Hindu deity Krishna.
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