Crossword-Solution: BARREN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Barren | a. | Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals. |
| Barren | a. | Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile. |
| Barren | a. | Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty. |
| Barren | a. | Mentally dull; stupid. |
| Barren | n. | A tract of barren land. |
| Barren | n. | Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile. |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ONERAC
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with BARREN (5)
Castor and Pollux with their quiet shine were almost on the meridian: the barren and gloomy Square of Pegasus was creeping round to the north-west; far away through the plantation, Vega sparkled like a lamp suspended amid the leafless trees, and Cassiopeia’s chair stood daintily poised on the uppermost boughs.
Earth her gracious fruits denies; Women wail in barren throes; Life on life downstriken goes, Swifter than the wind bird’s flight, Swifter than the Fire-God’s might, To the westering shores of Night.
The old man, in a voice that seldom rose above the howling of the wind upon the barren waste, was singing them a Christmas song--it had been a very old song when he was a boy--and from time to time they all joined in the chorus.
Fertil of corn the glebe, of oil, and wine; With herds the pasture thronged, with flocks the hills; 260 Huge cities and high-towered, that well might seem The seats of mightiest monarchs; and so large The prospect was that here and there was room For barren desert, fountainless and dry.
Darkness was just falling as we came in sight of the seemingly impregnable walls of this mountain stronghold, and lest we be seen I drew back with Woola behind a jutting granite promontory, into a clump of the hardy, purple scrub that thrives upon the barren sides of Otz.
Quotes with BARREN (3)
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.
I tell of hearts and souls and dances... Butterflies and second chances; Desperate ones and dreamers bound, Seeking life from barren ground, Who suffer on in earthly fate The bitter pain of agony hate, Might but they stop and here forgive Would break the bonds to breathe and live And find that God in goodness brings A chance for change, the hope of wings To rest in Him, and self to die And so become a butterfly.
Must I accept the barren Gift?-learn death, and lose my Mastery? Then let them know whose blood and breathwill take the Gift and set them free: whose is the voice and whose the mindto set at naught the well-sung Game-when finned Finality arrivesand calls me by my secret Name. Not old enough to love as yet, but old enough to die, indeed--the death-fear bites my throat and heart, fanged cousin to the Pale One's breed. But past the fear lies life for all-perhaps for me: and, pas…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 75 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).