Crossword-Solution: INCUBATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Incubate | v. i. & t. | To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “INCUBATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| grow under conditions that promote development | 1 answer |
| Sit on, maybe | 1 answer |
| Nurture, as a startup | 1 answer |
| Hatch artificially | 1 answer |
| Develop, as an egg | 1 answer |
| call into being | 2 answers |
| Sit on eggs | 2 answers |
| Grow slowly or gradually | 2 answers |
| bring to fruition | 3 answers |
| Take form | 3 answers |
| Develop slowly | 3 answers |
| fecundate | 6 answers |
| BREED stock | 7 answers |
| develop gradually | 11 answers |
| impregnate | 33 answers |
| Brood | 41 answers |
| Develop | 64 answers |
| grow | 72 answers |
| Manufacture | 79 answers |
| Nurse | 79 answers |
| Establish | 80 answers |
| Produce | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INCUBATE (5)
There are some breeds of fowls which are called “everlasting layers,” because they have lost the instinct of incubation; and so rare is it for them to incubate that I have seen notices published in works on poultry, when hens of such breeds have taken to sit.[40] Yet the aboriginal species was of course a good incubator; and with birds in a state of nature hardly any instinct is so strong as this.
Thus I raised several chickens from a Polish hen by a Spanish cock,—breeds which do not incubate,—and none of the young hens at first showed any tendency to sit; but one of them—the only one which was preserved—in the third year sat well on her eggs and reared a brood of chickens.
The long and the short of it is that it simply declines to incubate." "Perhaps it's your dodge of letting down the temperature.
Every once in a while you'll find a dumb ass of a man whose brain will get to boiling with liquor or some other ferment, and it'll incubate an idea, a real idea.
Those pigeons who elect to incubate on the ground discard even the rude platform of twigs, which generally represents the nest of those who prefer bushes and trees, but gradually encircle themselves with tiny mounds of ejected seeds, until the appearance of a nest is presented.
Quotes with INCUBATE (3)
To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely sensitive ecumenical conscience, is to stand against those who try to incubate a Reformation in the Muslim world.
And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric which nets the world together, so that anything which I do finally incubate out of my system into words will quite certainly be about solitude. Solitude and the desirability of it, if one is to achieve anything like continuity in life, is the one idea I find in the resounding vacancy which is my head.
She deigned to asked me how ice queens reproduce. I grinned, and her mother looked horrified.“We procreate by way of ice cubes, of course. We put them in our nests and let them incubate for the period of about four months, and when the temperature is right, we put them out to roost and let them flake off into billions of snowflakes, rather like tadpoles breaking in droves from their eggs. And that, child,” I said, with a simulacrum of glee, “is how winter is born.”“Does it hu…
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Appears in: NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1992–2015).