Crossword-Solution: SOLVENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Solvent | a. | Having the power of dissolving; dissolving; as, a solvent fluid. |
| Solvent | a. | Able or sufficient to pay all just debts; as, a solvent merchant; the estate is solvent. |
| Solvent | n. | A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something; as, water is the appropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metals, etc. |
| Solvent | n. | That which resolves; as, a solvent of mystery. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
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greedy person
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Sentences with SOLVENT (5)
Grove was led to believe that a paper darkened by the sun (which darkening is supposed to result from the precipitation of silver) might be bleached by using a solvent which would not attack the silver in the dark, but would do so in the light.
But it ‘s a riddle, and I only half guess it.” “Well,” said Rowland, “I desire to harm no one; but certain suppositions have taken shape in my mind which serve as a solvent to several ambiguities.” “It is very true,” Madame Grandoni answered, “that the Cavaliere, as he stands, has always needed to be explained.” “He is explained by the hypothesis that, three-and-twenty years ago, at Ancona, Mrs.
Smoke is almost as great a solvent as divorce: both tend to obscure the moral issue.” Nothing could have been less consonant with Selden’s mood than Van Alstyne’s after-dinner aphorisms, but as long as the latter confined himself to generalities his listener’s nerves were in control.
And there is plenty of hackwork of that sort available to keep us going until more solvent days, when I shall have opportunity to write something quite worthy of you." "For the present, dear, it would be much more sensible, I think, to 'do' the bishops and the Corn Laws.
How little he could have guessed that the alternative he was presenting to me was either to pay away more than half my capital, or to give up cooking my food! I at last appeased him by a promise that I should look into the matter, and so escaped for the moment, badly shaken but still solvent.
Quotes with SOLVENT (3)
Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.
perhaps, all these years, historians had been unwilling to recognize history as a spiral because a spiral was so difficult to describe. was war, then, the big solution after all? war the great aphrodisiac, the great source of world adrenalin, the solvent of ennui, angst, melancholia, accidia, spleen? war itself a massive sexual act. -war, finally, the controller, the trimmer & excisor; the justifier of fertility?" --the Wanting Seed/Burgess
What is the value of the Gnani’s [the enlightened one’s] feet? It is a value that is immeasurable. The Gnani’s feet is one & the only solvent to dissolve egoism.
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 19 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).