Vampire is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VAMPIRE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to prey upon
• assail
NOUN:
• (in European folklore) a corpse supposed to leave its grave at night to drink the blood of the living by biting their necks with long pointed canine teeth.
• a person who preys ruthlessly on others
• a small bat that feeds on the blood of mammals or birds using its two sharp incisor teeth and anticoagulant saliva, found mainly in tropical America.
• (in a theatre) a small spring trapdoor used for sudden disappearances from a stage.
• (in folklore) corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
• A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730.
• Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.
• Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.
• Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire.
• (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living

Words related to VAMPIRE

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Words that contain VAMPIRE

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How to use VAMPIRE in a sentence

• The amphibious existence of the vampire is sustained by daily renewed slumber in the grave.
• The vampire is prone to be fascinated with an engrossing vehemence, resembling the passion of love, by particular persons.
• The vampire is, apparently, subject, in certain situations, to special conditions.
• A suicide, under certain circumstances, becomes a vampire.
• As for our student, forgetting his faithful Vampire, he made his way to a young lady of great personal attractions, to whom he had been attached in former days.
• A large kind of bat, or vampire, was first observed here, measuring about two feet across the wings.
• It is in fashion among a tribe of bats to which belongs the so-called vampire of India.
• And, as usual, he fell, conquered by that vampire caress.
• The life of Paris was being drained of its best blood by this vampire, war.
• The sloth does not suspend himself head downward, like the vampire bat, but when asleep he supports himself from a branch parallel to the earth.
• She was a hag and a vampire, hatred of whom lay deep in every human heart in her hunting range.
• There are cavalry stables, where lights burn all night long to protect the horses from the vampire bats.
• BASA-ANDRE, the wild woman, a sorceress, married to Basa-Jaun, a sort of vampire.
• If you wish to please them, you must sell yourself to some rich vampire of the factories or great landlord.
• This form of superstition created much anxiety in the public mind, none knowing when he might be bitten by one of those hated demons, and be thereby transformed into a vampire.
• So far as our experience goes, we can say, with Bates, that the vampire, so common on the Amazon, is the most harmless of all bats.
• This punishment prevented her, in the unhallowed life which, for such as she, begins after ordinary decease, from practising the horrible rites of a vampire.
• Well, the same thing happened to the second sister and in no time at all the Vampire had killed her, too, to satisfy his awful thirst.
• So the poor old woman sent her Youngest Daughter away with the Vampire.
• There were doors in the cave which the Vampire told her were doors to closets she must not enter.
• You may be sure the Vampire when he came back and found her gone fell into a great rage.
• The horrible doubts which he had driven away were sucking at his heart like a vampire.
• He seemed to brood over the country round about like a great vampire bat, sucking the life-blood of the people.
• Or he takes us to some South American forest, where the vampire bats suck the blood of horses during the night.
• Inevitably the affair tends to evil from the beginning and presently that which now appears as a man-child will assume the form of a devouring vampire and consume us all.
• The two bones are not often found in so lateral a position, and the vampire wings are clumsy in the extreme.
• The only green thing was some ivy, a parasitic vampire which drew its lifeblood from the mouldering corpse of an old church.
• Already my cry of indignation had aroused the vampire from his orgy.
• Evelyn was narrow, selfish, scheming, but, at all events, was not in league with this vampire.
• She has charming eyes, but no more heart than a vampire.
• What black beads of eyes had Miss Vespertila from Servia, where her grandfather, General Vampire, still commands a brigade of rascals! Her teeth were sharp, and white as pearls.

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