Crossword-Solution: FLAKING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Flaking | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Flake |
We have 10 clues for the answer “FLAKING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Peeling off, as paint | 1 answer |
| BLANCHING | 5 answers |
| loosening | 6 answers |
| coming loose | 8 answers |
| coming off | 8 answers |
| peeling | 8 answers |
| detaching | 9 answers |
| shedding | 9 answers |
| Losing | 15 answers |
| cracking | 17 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FLAKING (5)
Therefore the depth of roughening and ultimate flaking of the granite surface indicated the depth to which this temperature occurred and helped to determine the average ground temperatures in the instant following the explosion.
The distance ratio of this effect between Nagasaki and Hiroshima was about the same as for the flaking of polished granite.
There were the usual blue-and-white-striped jail-made rugs on the uneven floor; the usual glass-studded Amritsar _phulkaris_ draped on nails driven into the flaking whitewash of the walls; the usual half-dozen chairs that did not match, picked up at sales of dead men’s effects; and the usual streaks of black grease where the leather punka-thong ran through the wall.
They begin to shoot not far from the city.” “The dears—they always used to!” Dick snuffed the smell of parched dust, heated iron, and flaking paint with delight.
All the pleasant morning we slid smoothly along over the plains, through thin--not thick--forests of great melancholy gum trees, with trunks rugged with curled sheets of flaking bark--erysipelas convalescents, so to speak, shedding their dead skins.
Quotes with FLAKING (3)
Feathers!" spluttered Sargatanas. "Feathers are for the birds, my boy. Flaking, peeling, scale-ridden wings, now that's what real beings wear. I'll tell you a secret." He said, and drew me closer. "The eternal pain at having known Paradise and lost it is priceless. I wouldn't swap it for anything.
To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business — not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into… rhetoric and plot.
I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve. Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2008).