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Another word for hector

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Noun

  1. One who is habitually cruel to smaller or weaker people

    See also:

    over

Verb

  1. To domineer or drive into compliance by the use of as threats or force, for example

    See also:

    over

  2. To torment with persistent insult or ridicule

    Idioms:
    See also:

    treat well

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Another word for hector

Verb
  1. See also:

    bait

    bother

    bait

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Sentence Examples

  • His epic in fourteen books, known as Ta µe6' "Oµrjpov or Posthomerica, takes up the tale of Troy at the point where Homer's Iliad breaks off (the death of Hector), and carries it down to the capture of the city by the Greeks.

  • legendary materials borrowed by Hollinshed from Hector Boece, and on the dynastic myth of the descent of the Stuart kings from Banquo, has clouded the actual facts of history.

  • The chief incidents in that part of the poem - the panic rush to the ships, the duels of Paris and Menelaus, and of Hector and Ajax, the Aristeia of Diomede - stand in no relation to the mainspring of the poem, the promise made by Zeus to Thetis.

  • Frederick Schwatka, U.S. navy; and Sir Hector Macdonald, " Fighting Mac " of Omdurman.

  • The destruction of the forest is telling fatally on the ' See the geological map of New Zealand by Sir James Hector (1884).

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