Crossword-Solution: POWDER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Powder | n. | The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust. |
| Powder | n. | An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder. |
| Powder | v. t. | To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate. |
| Powder | v. t. | To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair. |
| Powder | v. t. | To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat. |
| Powder | v. i. | To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily. |
| Powder | v. i. | To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POWDER (5)
But Peter issued from the powder magazine with the shell in his hands, and calmly flung it overboard.
Swift of foot was Hiawatha; He could shoot an arrow from him, And run forward with such fleetness, That the arrow fell behind him! Strong of arm was Hiawatha; He could shoot ten arrows upward, Shoot them with such strength and swiftness, That the tenth had left the bow-string Ere the first to earth had fallen! He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder.
Had they prepared pitfalls? Were the powder mills at Hounslow ready as a snare? Would the Londoners have the heart and courage to make a greater Moscow of their mighty province of houses? Then, after an interminable time, as it seemed to us, crouching and peering through the hedge, came a sound like the distant concussion of a gun.
Atari ST and Macintosh equivalents of a UNIX `panic' or Amiga {guru} (sense 2), where icons of little black-powder bombs or mushroom clouds are displayed, indicating that the system has died.
Stone whose clever personations of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow have delighted thousands of children throughout the land, this book is gratefully dedicated by THE AUTHOR LIST OF CHAPTERS Tip Manufactures Pumpkinhead The Marvelous Powder of Life The Flight of the Fugitives Tip Makes an Experiment in Magic The Awakening of the Saw-horse Jack Pumpkinhead’s Ride to the Emerald City His Majesty the Scarecrow Gen.
Quotes with POWDER (3)
Above his head at street level, he saw an angled aileron of a scarlet Porsche, its jaunty fin more or less at the upper edge of his window frame. A pair of very soft, clean glistening black shoes appeared, followed by impeccably creased matt charcoal pinstriped light woollen legs, followed by the beautifully cut lower hem of a jacket, its black vent revealing a scarlet silk lining, its open front revealing a flat muscular stomach under a finely-striped red and white shirt. Va…
the worstthing that ever happenedtothe worldwasthe white man coming across gun powder. — — the end of the world | the beginning of white supremacy
It is hard to feel affection for something as totally impersonal as the atmosphere, and yet there it is, as much a part and product of life as wine and bread. Taken all in al, the sky is a miraculous achievement. It works, and for what it is designed to accomplish it is as infallible as anything in nature. I doubt whether any of us could think of a way to improve on it, beyond maybe shifting a local cloud from here to there on occasion. The word 'chance' does not serve to acc…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 37 times in crossword archives (1955–2024).