hydra

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You have fought the hydra bravely, and I commend you for that.

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(Greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones; "Hydra was slain by Hercules"

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noun

(Greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones; "Hydra was slain by Hercules"

noun

a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer

noun

trouble that cannot be overcome by a single effort because of its many aspects or its persistent and pervasive quality; "we may be facing a hydra that defies any easy solution"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hydra.

noun

(Greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones; "Hydra was slain by Hercules"

noun

a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer

noun

trouble that cannot be overcome by a single effort because of its many aspects or its persistent and pervasive quality; "we may be facing a hydra that defies any easy solution"

noun

small tubular solitary freshwater hydrozoan polyp

Example sentences

You have fought the hydra bravely, and I commend you for that.

And I'm not the only one, my friends are all on board with excising the hydra.

I wonder if hydra can be used as a launch point to create a better tiling window manager for OSX.

Please refer to Policy X before resubmitting", why not attack the hydra head on?

Of all things that are troublesome when it comes to building software products, time is the hydra that keeps raising a head over and over.

Very similar to what Oliver Kreylos has been doing with the oculus and hydra controller.

"I suppose it's understandable; he's probably just trying to get some publicity for his team's long-running research on hydra.

That makes him far less valuable as a target for "extralegal field maneuvers".By distributing the file, he's announced that the information has become a hydra - cutting off its head won't kill it.

The Provisional Sinn Féin/Provisional IRA hydra always made it absolutely clear that their goal was the establishment of "a thirty-two county socialist republic".

In the UK we have a Conservative/Liberal coalition, where traditionally Liberals were strong privacy advocates, but now turn a blind eye to the massive Orwellian/Huxley-esque society growing like hydra's heads in front of their very eyes.