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Frankenstein
From: Webster's NewWorld Dictionary
Date: 19880101
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Webster's NewWorld Dictionary
01-01-1988
Frank|en|stein (frangk'n stin)
1. the title character in a novel (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: he is a young medical student who creates a monster that destroys him
2. popularly, Frankenstein's monster--n.
1. any person destroyed by his or her own creation
2. anything that becomes dangerous to its creator
Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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