{
  "dybbuk":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a wandering soul believed in Jewish folklore to enter and control a living body until exorcised by a religious rite":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "That dybbuk had set up shop in her mother\u2019s stomach and had not wanted to leave. \u2014 Olga Tokarczuk, The New Yorker , 13 Sep. 2021",
      "Parents must work together to save their young daughter from a dybbuk , a malevolent spirit that inhabits and ultimately devours its human host. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 Mar. 2021",
      "The dybbuk stops here regardless, and The Vigil is nothing if not determined to break out every trick in the malevolent-spirit-run-amuck book to spook, unsettle, and jar you. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 25 Feb. 2021",
      "When a little girl named Em unleashes a demon called the dybbuk \u2014the taker of children\u2014and becomes possessed, a series of scream-out-loud moments follow. 2. \u2014 Noelle Devoe, Seventeen , 8 Oct. 2014",
      "The 48-minute, nine-part ballet takes its musical and choreographic impetus from the notion of the dybbuk , a lost and restless spirit found in Central-European Jewish folklore. \u2014 Robert Greskovic, WSJ , 8 May 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1903, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Yiddish dibek , from Late Hebrew dibb\u016bq":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8di-b\u0259k"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065322",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}