HULK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hulk mean? 

• HULK (noun)
  The noun HULK has 2 senses:

1. a very large person; impressive in size or qualities

2. a ship that has been wrecked and abandoned

  Familiarity information: HULK used as a noun is rare.

• HULK (verb)
  The verb HULK has 1 sense:

1. appear very large or occupy a commanding position

  Familiarity information: HULK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HULK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very large person; impressive in size or qualities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

giant; heavyweight; hulk; whale

Hypernyms ("hulk" is a kind of...):

large person (a person of greater than average size)

Derivation:

hulk (appear very large or occupy a commanding position)

hulky (of great size and bulk)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A ship that has been wrecked and abandoned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hulk" is a kind of...):

ship (a vessel that carries passengers or freight)

• HULK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Appear very large or occupy a commanding position

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

hulk; loom; predominate; tower

Context example:

Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall

Hypernyms (to "hulk" is one way to...):

lift; rear; rise (rise up)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

hulk (a very large person; impressive in size or qualities)

 Context examples 

She lays close to the Endymion, between her and the Cleopatra, just to the eastward of the sheer hulk.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me; and if I'm not to have my rum now I'm a poor old hulk on a lee shore, my blood'll be on you, Jim, and that doctor swab; and he ran on again for a while with curses.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The hulk of an ancient wreck burned with blue fires, in the light of which danced the hula dancers to the barbaric love- calls of the singers, who chanted to tinkling ukuleles and rumbling tom- toms.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)