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A type of brutish giant or monster from folk tales
“With the first light of morning, the ground started to tremble and shake. The cell door was flung open, and in leaped the fearsome ogre.”
A wicked or reprehensible person
“Soames is generally a reprehensible ogre of a person, who, as played by Damian, we beguilingly wind up sympathizing with.”
An uncouth or loutish person or being
“The uncouth ogre brought a rawness that had not been seen previously on a London stage.”
Any imagined fear or threat, or a fear presumed larger than it really is
“The people are weary of the war and yearn for peace, as if peace is a mantra which, if repeated often enough can banish the ogre of war.”
A person or thing of great physical size, stature or strength
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