Crossword-Solution: INSECT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Insect | n. | One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta. |
| Insect | n. | Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion. |
| Insect | n. | Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates. |
| Insect | n. | Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing. |
| Insect | a. | Of or pertaining to an insect or insects. |
| Insect | a. | Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| INSECT | anagram | INCEST, NICEST, SCIENT |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with INSECT (5)
This had got on Hook’s nerves; it made his iron claw twitch, and at night it disturbed him like an insect.
Once, when all the maize was planted, Hiawatha, wise and thoughtful, Spake and said to Minnehaha, To his wife, the Laughing Water: “You shall bless to-night the cornfields, Draw a magic circle round them, To protect them from destruction, Blast of mildew, blight of insect, Wagemin, the thief of cornfields, Paimosaid, who steals the maize-ear.
Just at that moment a Gnat settled on the head of the Elephant, and he replied, “Do you see that little buzzing insect? If it enters my ear, my fate is sealed.
They are, in the language of the slave’s poet, Whittier,— “Gone, gone, sold and gone To the rice swamp dank and lone, Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings, Where the noisome insect stings, Where the fever-demon strews Poison with the falling dews, Where the sickly sunbeams glare Through the hot and misty air:— Gone, gone, sold and gone To the rice swamp dank and lone, From Virginia hills and waters— Woe is me, my stolen daughters!” The hearth is desolate.
Oak had not once wished her free that he might marry her himself—had not once said, “I could wait for you as well as he.” That was the insect sting.
Quotes with INSECT (3)
It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.
I killed four flies while waiting. Damn, death was everywhere. Man, bird, beast, reptile, rodent, insect, fish didn't have a chance. The fix was in. I didn't know what to do about it. I got depressed. You know, I see a boy at the supermarket, he's packing my groceries, then I see him sticking himself into his own grave along with the toilet paper, the beer and the chicken breasts.
In Collegium it had been the fashion, while he had been resident there, to paint death as a grey-skinned, balding Beetle man in plain robes, perhaps with a doctor's bag but more often an artificer's toolstrip and apron, like the man who came in, at the close of the day, to put out the lamps and still the workings of the machines. Among his own people, death was a swift insect, gleaming black, its wings a blur - too fast to be outrun and too agile to be avoided, the unplumbed …
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 129 times in crossword archives (1955–2025).