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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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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