Crossword-Solution: EXCRESCENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Excrescence | n. | An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “EXCRESCENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body | 1 answer |
| Unwanted outgrowth | 1 answer |
| an outgrowth from the surface | 2 answers |
| Wart | 7 answers |
| supererogation | 8 answers |
| Wen | 9 answers |
| Belly | 46 answers |
| Fungus | 48 answers |
| Growth ___ | 51 answers |
| swelling | 53 answers |
| Mound | 56 answers |
| Gall | 57 answers |
| Bubble | 61 answers |
| Lump | 68 answers |
| Exuberance | 78 answers |
| wave | 80 answers |
| Blemish | 81 answers |
| outgrowth | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with EXCRESCENCE (5)
The shell had been so thin, so devoid of excrescence, and so closely drawn over the accommodation granted, that the grim character of what was beneath showed through it, as the shape of a body is visible under a winding sheet.
Suppose we make up a party and volunteer?" "I don't mind going if a lunch is provided," observed the gentleman with the excrescence on his nose.
Toward the middle of the platform the long-boat, half buried in the hull of the vessel, formed a slight excrescence.
How unutterably wretched they would be without drink to give them illusions! Susan grew fond of cigarettes, fond of whiskey; to the rest she after a few weeks became numb--no new or strange phenomenon in a world where people with a cancer or other hideous running sore or some gross and frightful deformity of fat or excrescence are seen laughing, joining freely and comfortably in the company of the unafflicted.
The view of the hill of Dinas Bran, from the southern side of Llangollen, would be much more complete were it not for a bulky excrescence, towards its base, which prevents the gazer from obtaining a complete view.
Quotes with EXCRESCENCE (2)
Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means an invisible man. He was ubiquitous and palpable, both in a physical and a cyber-spectral form, to the extent that his death took on something of the feel of an exorcism. It is satisfying to know that, before the end came, he had begun at least to guess at the magnitude of his 9/11 mistake. It is essential to remember that his most fanatical and militant deputy, Ab…
That City of yours is a morbid excrescence. Wall Street is a morbid excrescence. Plainly it's a thing that has grown out upon the social body rather like -- what do you call it? -- an embolism, thrombosis, something of that sort. A sort of heart in the wrong place, isn't it? Anyhow -- there it is. Everything seems obliged to go through it now; it can hold up things, stimulate things, give the world fever or pain, and yet all the same -- is it necessary, Irwell? Is it inevitab…