moloch   (TTS Sound)

The noun moloch has 3 senses

• Moloch -- (a tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice; "the great Moloch of war"; "duty has become the Moloch of modern life"- Norman Douglas)


• Moloch, Molech -- (god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children)


• moloch -- (any lizard of the genus Moloch)