gorgon

Speech parts

1. gorgon - Noun

2. gorgon - Adjective

3. Gorgon - Proper noun

Meaning

One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa.

Anything very ugly or horrid.

The brindled gnu. See Gnu.

Like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a Gorgon face.

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Examples

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair. Oscar Wilde

Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears,” he said. "Well, she opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say that she blinds people. What she does is just the contrary - she fastens their eyelids open, so that they're never again in the blessed darkness. Edith Wharton

Whether trauma will be a cruel and punishing Gorgon or a vehicle for soaring to the heights of transformation and mastery depends upon how we approach it. Peter A. Levine

War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so. Libba Bray

After breaking the first HP bar, Gorgon will gain a buff that ensures her spammable stun skill will land normally. Source: Internet

By George Dekle Sr. * 2000 A.D. : Played on a 10×10 board, features pieces Empress, Capricorn, Gorgon, Chimaera, Dragon, Mimotaur, Unicorn, and Fury. Source: Internet

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