Crossword-Solution: OBTAIN 6 letters, 54 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Obtain v. t. To hold; to keep; to possess.
Obtain v. t. To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to
procure; to acquire, in any way.
Obtain v. i. To become held; to gain or have a firm footing; to be
recognized or established; to subsist; to become prevalent or general;
to prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer.
Obtain v. i. To prevail; to succeed.

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OBTAIN anagram BONITA, OATBIN

We have 54 clues for the answer “OBTAIN”

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aquire get 1 answer
acquire intentionally 1 answer
acquire get 1 answer
Opposite of "give up" 1 answer
Manage to snag 1 answer
Manage to acquire 1 answer
Gain possession of 1 answer
Be prevalent 1 answer
Get a hold of 3 answers
Get one's hands on 3 answers
Manage to get 4 answers
Lay one's hands on 4 answers
Come into 9 answers
Get hold of 11 answers
Take hold of 11 answers
ACT in advance 12 answers
Acquire information 14 answers
ACQUIRE AGAIN 15 answers
inherit 15 answers
Purchase 16 answers
Smelt 18 answers
procure 18 answers
Reap 19 answers
grow on one 20 answers
Acquired 22 answers
Fetch 23 answers
attain 24 answers
Derive 25 answers
Educe 25 answers
buy 27 answers
Garner 28 answers
Come by 28 answers
fulfil 34 answers
Earn 35 answers
Win 42 answers
borrow 43 answers
MOVE past 44 answers
Accomplish 46 answers
Achieve 51 answers
Profit 51 answers
Score 57 answers
Extract 58 answers
Succeed 58 answers
compile 59 answers
Realise 60 answers
Realize 61 answers
Pick up 63 answers
Receive 63 answers
Effect 71 answers
__ bag 71 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEATR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OBTAIN (5)

Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain’d Unacceptable, though in Heav’n, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from our selves, and from our own Live to our selves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easie yoke Of servile Pomp.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Shaw in Newport, and told me, in case my money did not serve me to New Bedford, to stop in Newport and obtain further assistance; but upon our arrival at Newport, we were so anxious to get to a place of safety, that, notwithstanding we lacked the necessary money to pay our fare, we decided to take seats in the stage, and promise to pay when we got to New Bedford.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
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The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
Almost before the first faint sign of dawn appeared she arose again, and opened the window to obtain a full breathing of the new morning air, the panes being now wet with trembling tears left by the night rain, each one rounded with a pale lustre caught from primrose-hued slashes through a cloud low down in the awakening sky.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Quotes with OBTAIN (3)

There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.
Anne Fortier Juliet
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?
William James
No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.
Josef Pieper Happiness and Contemplation
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Tribune, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 82 times in crossword archives (1971–2025).