Crossword-Solution: OBTAIN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| OBTAIN | anagram | BONITA, OATBIN |
We have 54 clues for the answer “OBTAIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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?
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.
Where this answer appears
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).