Crossword-Solution: ENCYST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Encyst | v. t. | To inclose in a cyst. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “ENCYST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Enclose in a capsule | 1 answer |
| Envelop in protective tissue. | 1 answer |
| Form into a Sac Anatomical | 1 answer |
| Form into a sac | 1 answer |
| Put in a capsule | 1 answer |
| enclose or become enclosed by a cyst, thick membrane, or shell | 1 answer |
| Encapsulate | 2 answers |
| enclose | 63 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ENCYST (5)
This condition is, perhaps, foreshadowed in the encyst- 94 ment of the amoeba in resistance to drought.
And we naturally expect that a man of wealth, with all the honors belonging to any one person, should take on a comforting accumulation of adipose, and encyst himself in the conventionalities of church, state and society.
Conjugation of adults has been observed in several species, the most complete account being that of Zederbauer on _Ceratium hirundinella_ (marine): either mate puts forth a tube which meets and opens into that of the other (as in some species of _Chlamydomonas_ and Desmids); the two cell-bodies fuse in this tube, and encyst to form a resting zygospore.
The minute larvæ live in a small water-snail (_Limnæa truncatula_), from which they ultimately escape to encyst on grass, &c., by which sheep may become infested.
John Montague Smith, with his curling yellow beard three weeks untrimmed, with his clothes dressing the part of a neglected camper, and with a steel-jacketed bullet trying to encyst itself under his right shoulder-blade, grinned exultantly.
Quotes with ENCYST (2)
They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness. Greased they'd say. Offed, lit up, zapped while zipping. It wasn't cruelty, just stage presence. They were actors. When someone died, it wasn't quite dying, because in a curious way it seemed scripted, and because they had their lives mostly memorized, irony mixed with tragedy, and because they called it by other names, as if to encyst and destroy the reality of death itself.
A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventually, your mind and heart encyst about it, and what occurs is a pearl of the soul.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1951–2012).