Juggernaut

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A literal or metaphorical force or object regarded as unstoppable, that will crush all in its path.

   “[…] poor Johnny Tetterby staggering under his Moloch of an infant, the Juggernaut that crushes all his enjoyments.”

2. isim A large, cumbersome truck or lorry, especially an articulated lorry.

   “Silently and gracefully I free-wheeled across the path of three juggernauts, [...] glided across the hard shoulder and came to rest halfway up a grass bank.”

3. isim An institution that incites destructive devotion or to which people are carelessly sacrificed.
4. özel isim Jagannath, the Hindu deity Vishnu's avatar Krishna.

   “'...for this girl, this child, the native of a Christian Land, worse than many a little heathen who says its prayers to Brahma and kneels before Juggernaut - this girl is - a liar!'”