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As verbs the difference between beast and brast

is that beast is to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment while brast is simple past of burst.

As a noun beast

is any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.

As an adjective beast

is great; excellent; powerful.

As a proper noun Beast

is a figure in the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse), often identified with Satan or the Antichrist.

beast

English

(wikipedia beast)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.
  • (more specific)  A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
  • *
  • Boxer was an enormous beast , nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
  • A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
  • (slang) A large and impressive automobile.
  • (slang, prisons) A sex offender.
  • * 1994 , Elaine Player, Michael Jenkins, Prisons After Woolf: Reform Through Riot (page 190)
  • Shouts had been heard: 'We're coming to kill you, beasts .' In desperation, Rule 43s had tried to barricade their doors
  • * 1994 , Adam Sampson, Acts of Abuse: Sex Offenders And the Criminal Justice System (page 83)
  • For many prisoners and in many prisons, antipathy towards 'nonces' or 'beasts' is little more than an idea
  • (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
  • * 2000 , Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon , Berkley (2001), ISBN 9780425180969, page 905:
  • Even unopposed, the natural obstacles are formidable, and defending his line of advance will be a beast of a problem."
  • * 2006 , Heather Burt, Adam's Peak , Dundurn Press (2006), ISBN 9781550026467, page 114:
  • He'd be in the hospital a few days — broken collarbone, a cast on his arm, a beast of a headache — but fine.
  • * 2011 , :
  • And, oh, poor Atlas / The world's a beast of a burden / You've been holding up a long time

    Derived terms

    * beastly * saddle beast

    See also

    * belluine (suppletive adjective)

    Derived terms

    * beast fable * beast of burden * beast of draft * beast of prey * beastie * beastly * beastmaster * beauty and the beast * king of beasts * lobola-beast * belly of the beast

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (British, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) great; excellent; powerful
  • * 1999 , "Jason Chue", AMD K6-2 350mhz, FIC VA503+, LGS 64mb PC100 sdram'' (on newsgroup ''jaring.pcbase )
  • There is another type from Siemens which is the HYB 39S64XXX(AT/ATL) -8B version (notice the "B" and the end) which is totally beast altogether.
  • * 2012 , Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits (page 37)
  • Translation: a piece of crap, but the rest of the car was totally beast .

    Anagrams

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    brast

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (burst)
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    burst

    English

    (wikipedia burst)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of, or the act of bursting .
  • The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
  • A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
  • Derived terms

    * cloudburst

    Verb

  • To break from internal pressure.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
  • To cause to break from internal pressure.
  • (obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
  • * Shakespeare
  • You will not pay for the glasses you have burst ?
  • * Fairfax
  • He burst his lance against the sand below.
  • To separate formfeed at perforation lines.
  • To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
  • He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
  • * 1913 , (Mariano Azuela), The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.
  • Like hungry dogs who have sniffed their meat, the mob bursts in, trampling down the women who sought to bar the entrance with their bodies.
  • To produce as an effect of bursting.
  • to burst a hole through the wall

    Derived terms

    * burst forth * burst into flame * burst out * burst someone's bubble