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Definition of: Frankenstein
(frangk′ən·stīn) noun
1. The hero of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, a medical student who fashions a man monster which commits numerous atrocities and finally slays its maker.
2. Any person destroyed by his own handiwork.
3. Loosely, Frankenstein's monster.
4. Any work or created thing that gets beyond the control of the inventor and causes his destruction.
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