Crossword-Solution: CARESS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Caress | n. | An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness. |
| Caress | n. | To treat with tokens of fondness, affection, or kindness; to touch or speak to in a loving or endearing manner; to fondle. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CARESS | anagram | ACRESS, CASERS, CESARS, SACRES, SCARES, SERACS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with CARESS (5)
Pearl, that wild and flighty little elf stole softly towards him, and taking his hand in the grasp of both her own, laid her cheek against it; a caress so tender, and withal so unobtrusive, that her mother, who was looking on, asked herself—“Is that my Pearl?” Yet she knew that there was love in the child’s heart, although it mostly revealed itself in passion, and hardly twice in her lifetime had been softened by such gentleness as now.
When the staff is in thine own firm grasp, thou mayest caress the daughters of Judah, or burn them, as may best suit thine own humour.” “Malvoisin,” said Bois-Guilbert, “thou art a cold-blooded—” “Friend,” said the Preceptor, hastening to fill up the blank, in which Bois-Guilbert would probably have placed a worse word,—“a cold-blooded friend I am, and therefore more fit to give thee advice.
She ran her hands in mute caress over his naked flesh; she covered his forehead, his eyes, his lips with hot kisses; she covered him with her body as though to protect him from the hideous fate she had ordained for him, and in trembling, piteous tones she begged him for his love.
She even stroked it a little, fondly, with the other hand, murmuring in an undertone, “_Pauvre chérie_.” The action was at first a little confusing to Edna, but she soon lent herself readily to the Creole’s gentle caress.
While he shaved he sang with strange inappropriateness: “No one to love, none to Caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.” But as he stood before the mirror, intent upon his shaving, there came a roll of wheels over the cobbles in front of the house.
Quotes with CARESS (3)
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.
I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her — after fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azure-barred — I would gather her in my arms with, at last, a mute moan of human tenderness (her skin glistening in the neon light coming from the paved court through the slits in the blind, her soot-black lashes matted, her grave gray eyes more vacant than ever — for all the world a little patient still in the confusio…
Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short of urge to plead Then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart Or greater than a star; Tame wild disappointment With caress unmoved and cold Make of it a parka For your soul. Discover the reason why So tiny human midget Exists at all So scared unwise But expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Three Across, Tribune, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 163 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).