Crossword-Solution: PERISHING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Perishing | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Perish |
We have 8 clues for the answer “PERISHING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Becoming extinct. | 1 answer |
| Biting the dust | 1 answer |
| Damp | 43 answers |
| Freezing | 45 answers |
| Chilly. | 49 answers |
| rotting | 51 answers |
| Bleak | 52 answers |
| ___ wet | 61 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RATEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PERISHING (5)
The Crow and the Pitcher A CROW perishing with thirst saw a pitcher, and hoping to find water, flew to it with delight.
But far away in Africa the magician remembered Aladdin, and by his magic arts discovered that Aladdin, instead of perishing miserably in the cave, had escaped, and had married a princess, with whom he was living in great honour and wealth.
There was not an urchin in school but was perishing to have a glimpse of it, but the chance never came.
Infuriated by political animosity, the wives in many a noble household wearied their lords with prayers to give up their opposition to the Colour Bill; and some, finding their entreaties fruitless, fell on and slaughtered their innocent children and husband, perishing themselves in the act of carnage.
Then must not a further admission be made? What admission? That the knowledge at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal, and not of aught perishing and transient.
Quotes with PERISHING (3)
Philosophy is metaphysics. Metaphysics thinks beings as a whole―the world, man, God―with respect to Being, with respect to the belonging together of beings in Being. Metaphysics thinks beings as being in the manner of representational thinking which gives reasons. For since the beginning of philosophy and with that beginning, the Being of beings has showed itself as the ground (arche, aition, principle). The ground is that from which beings as such are what they are in their …
The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.
I have been thinking about existence lately. In fact, I have been so full of admiration for existence that I have hardly been able to enjoy it properly . . . I feel sometimes as if I were a child who opens its eyes on the world once and sees amazing things it will never know any names for and then has to close its eyes again. I know this is all mere apparition compared to what awaits us, but it is only lovelier for that. There is a human beauty in it. And I can’t believe that…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WP.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1946–2000).