1. someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful_________The word behemoth has appeared in 199 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Sept. 2 in “First You Clean the Dinosaur’s Teeth. Then You Open the Museum” by Melena Ryzik:Don’t expect to put your arm around Teddy Roosevelt for a selfie. Or poke a finger in a moon crater, or scrape the mighty jaw of a T. rex. The hall of meteorites will stay unexplored, and the small theater tucked underneath the long, long tail of the Titanosaur will remain empty. Under the behemoth’s outstretched neck last week, a museum staff member was testing an about-to-be deployed army of automatic hand sanitizer machines.

Source: New York Times October 04, 2020 23:48 UTC