Crossword-Solution: CONTAIN 7 letters, 61 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Contain v. t. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include;
to inclose; to hold.
Contain v. t. To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to
be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.
Contain v. t. To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to
keep within bounds.
Contain v. i. To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

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Word Anagrams
CONTAIN anagram ACTINON, CANTINO, ICANNOT, NOICANT

We have 61 clues for the answer “CONTAIN”

Clue Answers
to have or hold within 1 answer
BE equal to (of a measure) 1 answer
FORM boundary of (geom.) 1 answer
HOLD enemy force in position (mil.) 1 answer
Have inside 1 answer
Have within 1 answer
to have and hold on to something within 1 answer
to have and hold something within 1 answer
to have or hold 1 answer
to have or hold something within 1 answer
Not let get widespread 1 answer
HOLD WITHIN 2 answers
Keep under control 4 answers
Have or hold 4 answers
Keep from spreading 4 answers
subsume 4 answers
Hold in check 9 answers
BUILD in 14 answers
Entail 15 answers
Constitute 18 answers
comprise 19 answers
circumscribe 23 answers
Obviate 25 answers
ADD UP (TO) 26 answers
Retain 34 answers
detain 34 answers
enwrap 36 answers
strangle 39 answers
Include 40 answers
Enfold 41 answers
Comprehend 42 answers
Harbour 43 answers
Keep back 45 answers
Accommodate 47 answers
Encompass 48 answers
smother 48 answers
Incorporate 49 answers
Embody 50 answers
Repress 51 answers
Muzzle 51 answers
Inhibit 52 answers
Restrict 52 answers
CALL to order 52 answers
Stifle! 52 answers
envelop 54 answers
Lodge 54 answers
Extinguish 55 answers
Choke 56 answers
Impound 57 answers
Kill 61 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONTAIN (5)

But goe with speed, And what thy stores contain, bring forth and poure Abundance, fit to honour and receive Our Heav’nly stranger; well we may afford Our givers thir own gifts, and large bestow From large bestowd, where Nature multiplies Her fertil growth, and by disburd’ning grows More fruitful, which instructs us not to spare.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Sometimes it won't include the full name of the person (in this case The President), and may look different, but it should always contain an email address of some form.
Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992
Applied especially to parodies, absurdities, and ironic jokes that are both intended and perceived to contain a possibly disquieting amount of truth, or truths that are constructed on in-joke and self-parody.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
The phial, to which I next turned my attention, might have been about half-full of a blood-red liquor, which was highly pungent to the sense of smell and seemed to me to contain phosphorus and some volatile ether.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992
Economic aid: This entry refers to bilateral commitments of official develop- ment assistance (ODA), which is defined as government grants that are administered with the promotion of economic development and welfare of LDCs as their main objective and are concessional in character and contain a grant element of at least 25%, and other official flows (OOF) or transactions by the official sector whose main objective is other than development motivated or whose grant element is below the 25% threshold for ODA.
The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993

Quotes with CONTAIN (3)

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your …
Kahlil Gibran The Prophet
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
John Keats Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.
William Paul Young The Shack
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.

Used 11 times in crossword archives (1999–2025).