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ACHILLES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy; when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his 'Achilles' heel'
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Instance hypernyms:
mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)
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