<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>(in the Bible) a deity whose worship was marked by the sacrifice of children by their own parents.</li><li>anything conceived of as requiring appalling sacrifice: the Moloch of war.</li><li>moloch, a spiny agamid lizard, <em>Moloch horridus</em>, of Australian deserts, that resembles the horned lizard.</li></ul>