Crossword-Solution: STRICTURE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stricture | n. | Strictness. |
| Stricture | n. | A stroke; a glance; a touch. |
| Stricture | n. | A touch of adverse criticism; censure. |
| Stricture | n. | A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “STRICTURE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A rule restricting behaviour or action | 1 answer |
| Severe censure | 1 answer |
| guideline | 6 answers |
| severe criticism | 7 answers |
| A LIMITATION ON IMPORTS | 10 answers |
| ANIMADVERSION | 15 answers |
| impeachment | 26 answers |
| prevention | 54 answers |
| Criticism | 81 answers |
| Restraint | 87 answers |
| CONTROL ___ | 113 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with STRICTURE (5)
Even when much diluted with air, it produces the most annoying irritation of the throat, with stricture of the chest and a severe cough, which continues for hours, with the discharge of much thick mucus.
Even in the brief moment of his entrance into the magnificence of Anthony Harding's home he had felt a strange little stricture of the throat--a choking, half-suffocating sensation.
She was conscious that the glare hurt her eyes, and that there was a strange stricture about her jaws and the base of her brain, like an iron hand.
Yes, these are my politics: to change what we can, to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions, and for no word however nobly sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture of these bonds.’ There was a silence of a moment.
There are many cases of stricture or complete occlusion of the vagina, congenital or acquired from cicatricial contraction, obstructing delivery, and in some the impregnation seems more marvelous than cases in which the obstruction is only a thin membranous hymen.
Quotes with STRICTURE (3)
He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into what we can love) would eventually be a part of himself
One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture
He’d often ignored his uncle’s teachings about gentlemanly behavior, but one stricture he’d always abided by: no man worth his salt took advantage of a woman.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1992).