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    [Adjective]  | "Au*ge*an" | \ ȯ-ˈjē-ən \


    1: extremely formidable or difficult and occasionally distasteful


    Origin: 1676 ;

     Latin Augeas, king of Elis, from Greek Augeias; from the legend that his stable, left neglected for 30 years, was finally cleaned by Hercules;

    [Noun]  | "Augean stable" 


    1: a condition or place marked by great accumulation of filth or corruption


    Origin: 1610 ;

    [Adjective]  | "Augean" 


    1: requiring considerable physical or mental effort;


      * e.g., " ... dreaded the Augean task of cleaning the bathroom after an overflow of the toilet "





    [Noun]  | "Augean stable" 


    1: a place of great vice and corruption;


      * e.g., " ... as a gubernatorial candidate he claimed that the state capitol was an Augean stable that desperately needed to be cleaned out "



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    [Noun]  | "Augean stables" 


    1: a place of great vice and corruption;


      * e.g., " ... as a gubernatorial candidate he claimed that the state capitol was an Augean stable that desperately needed to be cleaned out "



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