vampire

[US]/'væmpaɪə/
[UK]/ˈvæmˌpaɪr/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. blood-sucking bat, vampire
adj. resembling a vampire.

Phrases & Collocations

vampire bat

Example Sentences

the protectionist vampires in the Congress.

The apotropaic remedy used to kill the vampire was to exhume the body of the supposed vampire and, if the body was un-decomposed, remove and burn the blood-filled heart or the entire body.

"She's naive about the whole world of vampires, but she's willing to submerse herself in it. I think I might be a little more over-analytical."

A vampire in the grave could be told by holes in the earth, an undecomposed corpse with a red face, or having one foot in the corner of the coffin.

After the two Hell Wars fought by mankind against the hordes of demons and vampires, only a few scattered endives of humans survive.

Ghosts push aside alien abductions, werewolf infections and nightclubbing vampires to become the sole element of the occult in The Sims 3.

Ancient evil comes to the city and is sent scatting (not without some struggle, it is true) by thoroughly modern vampire-hunters who use blood transfusions and stenography and typewriting machines.

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