Crossword-Solution: DILATES 7 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Gets bigger, like a pupil 1 answer
Works with pupils? 1 answer
Works with pupils, in a way 1 answer
Widens, as pupils 1 answer
Widens, as a pupil 1 answer
What atropine does 1 answer
What a pupil does in the dark 1 answer
What a pupil does 1 answer
Lets extra light in, in a way 1 answer
Imitates a pupil? 1 answer
Extends in bulk. 1 answer
Expatiates. 1 answer
Becomes wider 1 answer
Gets bigger 2 answers
Becomes larger. 2 answers
Widens 3 answers
Enlarges 9 answers
BECOME wider 11 answers
Swells 14 answers
Expands 16 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DILATES (5)

LIX With aspect changing still, the beauteous dame Hears what the mournful Maganzese narrates; And, at first mention of Rogero's name, Her radiant face with eager joy dilates.
Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1996
Romance, on the other hand, dilates upon their piety and heroism and pourtrays in her most glowing and impassioned hues their virtue and magnanimity, the imperishable honour they acquired for themselves, and the great services they rendered to Christianity.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions Charles Mackay 2008
Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be; in this direction their unbounded imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure.
Democracy In America, Volume 2 (of 2) Alexis de Toqueville 2006
Wherefore, we ought to term white that which dilates the visual ray, and the opposite of this is black.
Timaeus Plato 1998
Then they both came down and sat in their places before the window waiting for Grandet, with that cruel anxiety which, according to the individual character, freezes the heart or warms it, shrivels or dilates it, when a scene is feared, a punishment expected,--a feeling so natural that even domestic animals possess it, and whine at the slightest pain of punishment, though they make no outcry when they inadvertently hurt themselves.
Eugenie Grandet Honore de Balzac 1999

Quotes with DILATES (3)

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
Victor Hugo Les Miserables
The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener — a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.
Paul Rand
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 27 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).