Crossword-Solution: CONCAVE 7 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Concave a. Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the
interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the
inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave
mirror; the concave arch of the sky.
Concave a. Hollow; void of contents.
Concave n. A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess.
Concave n. A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or
roll.
Concave v. t. To make hollow or concave.

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CONCAVE anagram CAVECON

We have 38 clues for the answer “CONCAVE”

Clue Answers
Lens shape 1 answer
HAVING a depressed surface 1 answer
HAVING a curved surface 1 answer
HOLLOW and round 1 answer
Curving inwards 1 answer
Curved in 1 answer
Curved and hollow 1 answer
Hollow and curved. 1 answer
Bending inwards 1 answer
Hollowed out and curved 1 answer
Like a bowl 1 answer
Like a bowl's shape 1 answer
Like band shells 1 answer
Like part of a circle 1 answer
Like the inside of a bowl 1 answer
Like the inside of a sphere 1 answer
ROUND and hollow 1 answer
Rounded inward. 1 answer
Shaped like the inside of a sphere 1 answer
The vault of the sky 1 answer
DEPRESSED surface 2 answers
Inward-curving 2 answers
CURVED surface 2 answers
Incurved. 3 answers
Hollowed 4 answers
Like some lenses 6 answers
LENS, type of 7 answers
Vaulted 8 answers
CURVED OR CURVING IN AND OUT 10 answers
CURVED BACKWARD OR INWARD 10 answers
COMBINATION OF LENSES AT THE VIEWING END OF OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS 11 answers
Curving inward, as a beak 11 answers
Curving inward 11 answers
BIG NAME IN LENSES 12 answers
sunken 17 answers
Belly 46 answers
Depress 66 answers
Hollow 93 answers
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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 CONCAVE (5)

Mean while the Adversary of God and Man, _Satan_ with thoughts inflam’d of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and toward the Gates of Hell Explores his solitary flight; som times He scours the right hand coast, som times the left, Now shaves with level wing the Deep, then soares Up to the fiery concave touring high.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The pit was a hemispherical concave, naturally formed, with a top diameter of about thirty feet, and shallow enough to allow the sunshine to reach their heads.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
The yellow men were armed with two swords, and a short javelin was slung across the back of each, while from their left arms hung cuplike shields no larger than a dinner plate, the concave sides of which turned outward toward an antagonist.
The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
And the same object appears straight when looked at out of the water, and crooked when in the water; and the concave becomes convex, owing to the illusion about colours to which the sight is liable.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
Concave mirrors are the reverse of convex; the latter being rounded outwards, the former hollowed inwards--they render rays of light more converging--collect rays instead of dispersing them, and magnify objects while the convex diminishes them.
The History and Practice of the Art of Photography Henry H. Snelling 2008

Quotes with CONCAVE (3)

We see that in the organic world, to the same degree that reflection gets darker and weaker, grace grows ever more radiant and dominant. But just as two lines intersect on one side of a point, and after passing through infinity, suddenly come together again on the other side; or the image in a concave mirror suddenly reappears before us after drawing away into the infinite distance, so too, does grace return once perception, as it were, has traversed the infinite--such that i…
Heinrich von Kleist Selected Prose
Spare parts lay scattered, every turn wrought with twisted dread, all over the ground, the rooftops, and they were still. Some moving, twitching, enough to almost see. Half cracked and shattered, but still visible and eerie, smiles spread wide and thin, teeth decayed and not, paralleled by hollowed, some missing or in other places, eyes of shades green and blue and some brown with red, but no white, just color portrayed, even if it may be dampened in every way. The beauty in …
Hubert Martin
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.' (Leviticus 18:22). That means simply that it is foul to do to other men what men habitually, proudly, manfully do to women: use them as inanimate, empty, concave things; fuck them into submission; subordinate them through sex.
Andrea Dworkin Right Wing Women
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Used 24 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).