Crossword-Solution: HYSTERIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hysteric | a. | Alt. of Hysterical |
We have 6 clues for the answer “HYSTERIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Person suffering from violent mental agitation | 1 answer |
| Unstable person | 1 answer |
| Crazed person | 2 answers |
| Maenad | 6 answers |
| hypochondriac | 9 answers |
| Madman | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HYSTERIC (5)
She often broke into a little, nervous, hysteric laugh, more touching than any tears could be; and forthwith, as if to try which was the most touching, a gush of tears would follow; or perhaps the laughter and tears came both at once, and surrounded our poor Hepzibah, in a moral sense, with a kind of pale, dim rainbow.
Onct nobody knowed, an' all the sime it was there--jest waitin'." Her fantastic laugh ended for her with a little choking, vaguely hysteric sound.
And as the new Lady Anstruthers was half led, half dragged, in humiliated hysteric disorder up the staircase, he took his mother by the elbow, marched her into the nearest room and shut the door.
Her voice was succeeded by the hysteric shrieks of several women, but the feelings of the audience generally had not been drawn onward in the current with her own.
Tupman has met with a little accident; that’s all.’ The spinster aunt uttered a piercing scream, burst into an hysteric laugh, and fell backwards in the arms of her nieces.
Quotes with HYSTERIC (3)
The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other words, in order to produce the most perfect images of hysteria, the hysteric — a woman whose illness simulates the symptoms of other diseases — was transformed, through hypnosis, into an artificial hysteric who perfectly simulated the simulations of hysteria. The medical photograph becomes a copy of a copy of a copy, a representation so far removed from the original that …
The government researchers, aware of the information in the professional journals, decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric dissociation). They decided to use selective trauma on healthy children to create personalities capable of committing acts desired for national security and defense.” p. 53 — 54
Other personalities are created to handle new traumas, their existence usually occurring one at a time. Each has a singular purpose and is totally focused on that task. The important aspect of the mind's extreme dissociation is that each ego state is totally without knowledge of the other. Because of this, the researchers for the CIA and the Department of Defense believed they could take a personality, train him or her to be a killer and no other ego stares would be aware of …
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Appears in: USA TODAY.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2001).