Crossword-Solution: GRAVID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gravid | a. | Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “GRAVID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| King George the Sixth appearing in poster with child | 1 answer |
| CHILDING | 3 answers |
| parous | 3 answers |
| With child | 7 answers |
| enceinte | 9 answers |
| parturient | 13 answers |
| pregnant | 22 answers |
| Expecting | 28 answers |
| Expectant | 38 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZAEMC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with GRAVID (5)
Yet if we open a gravid female, we find tadpoles inside her with exquisitely feathered gills; and when placed in water they swim about like the tadpoles of the water-newt.
How, indeed, could he hope to escape the doom which has fallen equally upon Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and dreadful Shiva the Three-eyed Destroyer[23]? By reason of her exceeding beauty, her face was a full moon shining in the clearest sky; her hair was the purple cloud of autumn when, gravid with rain, it hangs low over earth; and her complexion mocked the pale waxen hue of the large-flowered jasmine.
The delivery is sometimes aided by tightly binding the body above the gravid uterus in order, it would seem, to prevent any retrogression of the process.
The pregnant woman, quite excitable and irritable, readily responds to influences by which in the non-gravid condition she could not be affected.
They crowded to see him, pointing at him, and diversely comparing him to a gravid milch-buffalo, or a broken-down horse, as their limited range of metaphor prompted.
Quotes with GRAVID (3)
As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
We know by intuition and study that great books approach a condition both above and below human — what Lesser means by “grandeur and intimacy” — and our job is to place ourselves somewhere on the continuum between those shifting poles, to welcome a gravid agitation or be willing to undergo some form of personal torsion; to have our personhood both threatened and amplified.
I watched bulls bred to cows, watched mares foal, I saw life come from the egg and the multiplicative wonders of mudholes and ponds, the jell and slime of life shimmering in gravid expectation. Everywhere I looked, life sprang from something not life, insects unfolded from sacs on the surface of still waters and were instantly on prowl for their dinner, everything that came into being knew at once what to do and did it, unastonished that it was what it was, unimpressed by whe…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1999–2003).