Crossword-Solution: DILATION 8 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Dilation n. Delay.
Dilation n. The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated;
expansion; dilatation.

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DILATION anagram LAIDINTO, LAIDITON

We have 11 clues for the answer “DILATION”

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A swell occurrence? 1 answer
Action taken with pupils, at times 1 answer
a lengthy discussion on a particular topic 1 answer
diastole 1 answer
DILATATION 2 answers
pandiculation 8 answers
distension 9 answers
hyperbole 13 answers
enlargement 49 answers
development 74 answers
expansion 75 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DILATION (5)

Not a muscle quivered; nor was there the slightest dilation of a nostril, nor the slightest increase of light in the eyes.
Burning Daylight Jack London 1996
Edith did not withdraw the hand, nor did she strike his fair face with it, despite the flush upon her cheek, the bright light in her eyes, and the dilation of her whole form.
Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1997
This I attributed to the dilation of the air contained in the cellular tissue of the organ as much as to the cold outside.
Wonderful Balloon Ascents Fulgence Marion 1997
The fall of the mercury in the barometer was scarcely perceptible when the dilation of the hydrogen gas in the balloon had become considerable.
Wonderful Balloon Ascents Fulgence Marion 1997
This was done on the supposition that, when the balloon rose high, the hydrogen being rarefied would compress the little globe within, and press out of it a quantity of ordinary air equal to the amount of its dilation.
Wonderful Balloon Ascents Fulgence Marion 1997

Quotes with DILATION (3)

The very first few days when you actually start having symptoms of falling for someone special, are the days of heavenly bliss and unreasonable madness. This specific “madness” is one of the most rudimentary elements of the foundation of love. Along comes “Euphoria”. It feels like you have grown wings and you can fly around without a single care in the world. Everything starts to seem beautiful and better. The sun shines a bit brighter and the birds twitter a little louder an…
Abhijit Naskar Neurosutra: The Abhijit Naskar Collection
It was certainly true that I had “no sense of humour” in that I found nothing funny. I didn’t know, and perhaps would never know, the feeling of compulsion to exhale and convulse in the very specific way that humans evolved to do. Nor did I know the specific emotion of relief that is bound to it. But it would be wrong, I think, to say that I was incapable of using humour as a tool. As I understood it, humour was a social reflex. The ancestors of humans had been ape-animals li…
Max Harms Crystal Society
Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness... focusing the consciousness... aortal dilation... avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness... to be conscious by choice... blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions... one does not obtain food-safety freedom by instinct alone... animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct... the animal destroys and does…
Frank Herbert Dune
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (1985–2014).