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Sisyphus

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Noun

1. sisyphus

(Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sisyphus

see synonyms of sisyphus
noun
Greek mythology
a king of Corinth, punished in Hades for his misdeeds by eternally having to roll a heavy stone up a hill: every time he approached the top, the stone escaped his grasp and rolled to the bottom

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Sisyphus

see synonyms of sisyphus
noun
Greek Mythology
a greedy king of Corinth doomed forever in Hades to roll a heavy stone uphill, only to have it always roll down again

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sisyphus

see synonyms of sisyphus
n.
Greek Mythology
A cruel king of Corinth condemned forever to roll a huge stone up a hill in Hades only to have it roll down again on nearing the top.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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