Crossword-Solution: DEFER 5 letters, 110 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Defer	v. t.	To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.
Defer	v. i.	To put off; to delay to act; to wait.
Defer	v. t.	To render or offer.
Defer	v. t.	To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to.
Defer	v. i.	To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
DEFER	anagram	FERDE, FREED, REFED

We have 110 clues for the answer “DEFER”

Clue	Answers
"I'll ___ to you on this one"	1 answer
Be respectful (to)	1 answer
Be respectful.	1 answer
Bow, in a way	1 answer
Chemin ___.	1 answer
Command in "Mikado" song	1 answer
Delay for a while	1 answer
Delay until a later time	1 answer
Delay, as payments	1 answer
Let answer, with "to"	1 answer
Let someone else decide	1 answer
Make way for (to)	1 answer
Postpone an action	1 answer
Postpone, as an action	1 answer
Postpone, as enrollment	1 answer
Put off , prevent	1 answer
Put off for another day	1 answer
Put off for later	1 answer
Put off till tomorrow	1 answer
Put off, as loan payments	1 answer
Schedule for later	1 answer
Submit to authority	1 answer
Table 'til tomorrow	1 answer
Wait for a better time	1 answer
Yield precedence	1 answer
Yield respectfully	1 answer
Yield to another's wishes	1 answer
Yield, as a decision, to someone else	1 answer
delay (something) until a future time	1 answer
take a back seat (to)	1 answer
Give way (to someone)	1 answer
Decline to decide	2 answers
Yield to another's wish	2 answers
set LAY PUT GROUP PLACE aside	2 answers
Lay over	2 answers
Leave for later	2 answers
Put off 'til later	2 answers
Put off till later	2 answers
Reschedule for later	2 answers
Abeyance In	4 answers
Put off until later	4 answers
Put on the back burner	4 answers
Yield (to)	4 answers
hold over	5 answers
buckle under	5 answers
Put on the shelf	5 answers
hold in abeyance	5 answers
Give in (to)	7 answers
gain time	8 answers
PUSH back	8 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EEART

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with DEFER (5)

Anything that would take her out of the grievous present, and interpose human beings betwixt herself and what was nearest to her,—whatever would defer for an instant the inevitable errand on which she was bound,—all such impediments were welcome.

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Athelstane had this quality at least; and though he had few mental accomplishments or talents to recommend him as a leader, he had still a goodly person, was no coward, had been accustomed to martial exercises, and seemed willing to defer to the advice of counsellors more wise than himself.

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

For the present let me defer this subject, and say a word or two about the climate and houses in our country.

Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 1994

But let us defer the further correlation and subdivision of the subjects of opinion and of intellect, for it will be a long enquiry, many times longer than this has been.

Plato's Republic Plato 2008

The very forces at work over the eons that compelled women to defer to men, rewarded them for fearlessly attacking other women.

Wild Justice Ruth M. Sprague 1994

Quotes with DEFER (3)

See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its work in particular cases, and generalises. Truth, for him, becomes a class-name for all sorts of definite working-values in experience. For the rationalist it remains a pure abstraction, to the bare name of which we must defer. When the pragmatist undertakes to show in detail just why we must defer, the rationalist is unable to recognise the concretes from w…

William James Pragmatism and Other Writings

Consider the whole world reconnoitre individuals j who is there whose life is not taken up with providing for to morrow Do you ask what harm there is in this An infinite deal for such men do not live but are about to live they defer every thing from day to day however circumspect we are life will still outrun us.

Seneca Letters from a Stoic

Men spend their lives in anticipations, — in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 240 times in crossword archives (1957–2025).