Crossword-Solution: RETAIN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Retain | v. t. | To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like. |
| Retain | v. t. | To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor. |
| Retain | v. t. | To restrain; to prevent. |
| Retain | v. i. | To belong; to pertain. |
| Retain | v. i. | To keep; to continue; to remain. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RETAIN | anagram | ARENTI, EARNIT, ETRAIN, NAITRE, NERITA, RATINE, RETINA, TAINER, TEARIN, TINEAR, TIRANE |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZECEAM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with RETAIN (5)
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
Wonder not then, what God for you saw good If I refuse not, but convert, as you, To proper substance; time may come when men With Angels may participate, and find No inconvenient Diet, nor too light Fare: And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to Spirit Improv’d by tract of time, and wingd ascend Ethereal, as wee, or may at choice Here or in Heav’nly Paradises dwell; If ye be found obedient, and retain Unalterably firm his love entire Whose progenie you are.
Finally a neighbor said to them, “If you go on in this way, you will soon destroy by frequent use the pleasure of your exchange, and each will again wish to retain the fruits of his own sport.” Abstain and enjoy.
Iafai CAMARA (since 7 November 1985); Second Vice President Vasco CABRAL (since 21 June 1989) _#_Political parties and leaders: only party--African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC), President Joao Bernardo VIEIRA, leader; the party decided to retain the binational title despite its formal break with Cape Verde _#_Suffrage: universal at age 15 _#_Elections: President of Council of State--last held 19 June 1989 (next to be held NA 1993); results--Brig.
But since the case is so sad and odd-like, why don’t ye give the conditional promise? I think I would.” “But is it right? Some rash acts of my past life have taught me that a watched woman must have very much circumspection to retain only a very little credit, and I do want and long to be discreet in this! And six years—why we may all be in our graves by that time! Indeed the long time and the uncertainty of the whole thing give a sort of absurdity to the scheme.
Quotes with RETAIN (3)
God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.
Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp. Dostoevski said once, "There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings." These words frequently came to my mind after I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom canno…
Truth is in our blood. It is the essennce of our being. It is the best part of us, the core of what makes us human. It is our soul, our fundamental genetic beauty, and our spirit. We were created perfect, and despite the inevitability that we loose some of that perfection when we mature and develop in the midst of others who are wounded, we always retain the capacity to become perfect once again. The soul may be buried deeply, but as long as our hearts beat there remains hope.
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 57 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).