Juggernaut

Jug·ger·naut (jug′ər nôt′)

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

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

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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