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moloch has 1 distinct synonym spread across 1 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice
“the great Moloch of war”
god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for moloch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
any lizard of the genus Moloch