ogre

noun

ˈō-gər How to pronounce ogre (audio)
Definition of ogrenext
1
as in monster
a strange or horrible and often frightening creature a horror movie filled with ogres and demons of every description

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2
as in dread
something or someone that causes fear or dread especially without reason the ogre of the standardized test keeps recurring

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Recent Examples of ogre Saturday Night Live‘s Marcello Hernández and Superman‘s Skyler Gisondo will voice the ogre couple’s sons, Fergus and Farkle. — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 16 June 2026 People are turned into wolves, there are ogres and undead creatures of the sea who lure others to their demise. — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026 The fantasy comedy twisted the types of fairy tales that Disney was known for with cruder and sillier humor and centered a grumpy ogre journeying to save a princess. — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 15 May 2026 If Codex wants to talk about gremlins or ogres or pigeons, especially pigeons, let it. — Brian Barrett, Wired News, 30 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ogre
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ogre
  1. monster
  2. dread
  3. terror
  4. enemy
  5. bugbear
  6. curse
  7. plague
Noun
  • Inside a San Fernando workshop, Samuel McBride makes movie monsters come to life for the camera.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026
  • In his fullest public argument yet about his thinking, Thiel and co-author Sam Wolfe write the figure of ultimate evil is best understood not as a monster or a tyrant but as a technocrat.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 18 July 2026
Definition of monster
Noun
  • Cameron doesn't waste a second of that time, however, establishing characters (see above), introducing Newt, showing off the geography of the Hadley's Hope terraforming base, and building a creeping sense of dread.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 July 2026
  • Perfectly dark tone, a sinister mystery and a looming sense of total dread.
    — David Hookstead OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026
Definition of dread
Noun
  • Mayra Velasquez was charged with capital murder by terror threat on Friday, July 17, according to prison records seen by PEOPLE.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 21 July 2026
  • In line with the episode’s gothic theme, the women’s smiles, while somewhat genuine, carry a hint of terror.
    — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 20 July 2026
Definition of terror
Noun
  • This way was cleaner — recency bias won’t be his enemy, but his friend.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
  • That benefit is crucial, because as Texas State University’s professor Kostas Kalfas explains, heat is the enemy of hydraulic dampers.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 July 2026
Definition of enemy
Noun
  • Cuba’s communist regime has historically been a bugbear for the US, particularly for Republicans.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 19 July 2026
  • The heat and humidity during our test week brought me to my other bugbear with the C-HR.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 23 June 2026
Definition of bugbear
Noun
  • This caveat could be a blessing and a curse, warned Sridhar Tayur, a professor of operations management at Carnegie Mellon University.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 19 July 2026
  • However, the one who came up with it happened to be the first baseman from the 2016 curse-breaking Cubs.
    — Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026
Definition of curse
Noun
  • Like plague-spreading fleas, these animals can pose real harms to humans, but the category of pest need not be tied to an objective assessment of risk.
    — Elan Abrell, The Conversation, 22 July 2026
  • Ragusa’s rocky soil was too poor to feed its people, so grain came in by ship from Sicily and the Levant, and plague often rode in with it.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 July 2026
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