Sphinx

  1. Proper noun.  (usually, with "''the''") An ancient, large statue in Egypt, with the face of a man and the body of a lion, lying near the Great Pyramids.
  2. Proper noun.  (mythology) The demon of destruction and bad luck in Greek mythology.
  3. Noun.  (mythology) A creature with the head of a human and the body of an animal (commonly a lion).
  4. Noun.  A person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret.
  5. Noun.  (rare) A sphincter.
  6. Verb.  o decorate with sphinxes.
  7. Verb.  o adopt the posture of the Sphinx.
  8. Verb.  o be inscrutable, often through silence.
  9. Verb.  o make one guess at the unknowable.
  10. Verb.  o befuddle.
  11. Verb.  or the feminine to co-opt, dominate, or devour the masculine, especially from a paranoid fear of this happening.

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