Crossword-Solution: RETAINED 8 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Retained imp. & p. p. of Retain

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RETAINED anagram DAINTREE, DETAINER, EARNEDIT, NADERITE

We have 13 clues for the answer “RETAINED”

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Hired an attorney 1 answer
Hired, as a lawyer 1 answer
Hired, as counsel 1 answer
Kept in mind. 1 answer
Kept in possession 1 answer
Kept on 1 answer
Held onto 3 answers
Kept back 7 answers
Hired. 12 answers
Kept. 13 answers
Contained 34 answers
registered 40 answers
Held 44 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RETAINED (5)

The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar AN OLD WOMAN found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old wine and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former contents.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Primitive Colors[1] [1] The author's classification of colors has been retained, though it does not entirely accord with the theories of modern science.
Roget’s Thesaurus Peter Mark Roget 1991
President Paz Zamora has retained the economic policies of the previous government, keeping inflation down and continuing the moderate growth begun under his predecessor.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
People of unalterable ideas still insisted upon calling him “Sergeant” when they met him, which was in some degree owing to his having still retained the well-shaped moustache of his military days, and the soldierly bearing inseparable from his form.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
They would take neither the glow of passion nor the tenderness of sentiment, but retained all the rigidity of dead corpses, and stared me in the face with a fixed and ghastly grin of contemptuous defiance.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with RETAINED (3)

I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being men, these women don't know that in looking back on those he has had tender relations with, a man's heart returns closest to her who was the soul of truth in her conduct. The better class of man, even if caught by airy affectations of dodging and parrying, is not retained by them. A Nemesis attends the…
Thomas Hardy
In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere ac…
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil. (inside every hu…
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 7 times in crossword archives (1959–2013).