Synonyms for
Kraken
Definition
a legendary sea monster resembling a giant octopus or squid.
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Example sentences
- The kraken was spotted near the ship.
- The kraken was said to be very dangerous.
- Sailors feared the kraken.
- The kraken was rumored to be as big as an island.
- Nobody knows if the kraken really exists.
Quotes
'The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee / About his shadowy sides: above him swell / Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; / And far away into the sickly light, / From many a wondrous grot and secret cell / Unnumbered and enormous polypi / Winnow with giant fins the slumbering green.' - Alfred Lord Tennyson
'The Kraken, a mythological sea monster, is a fitting name for a creature that is likely to be the largest living invertebrate on the planet.' - David Scheel
'The Kraken is a symbol of the enemy we fear, the power we do not understand, and the monster that we cannot defeat.' - J.R. McRae