Crossword-Solution: TEMPORIZE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Temporize | v. t. | To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties. |
| Temporize | v. t. | To delay; to procrastinate. |
| Temporize | v. t. | To comply; to agree. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “TEMPORIZE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time | 1 answer |
| gain time by negotiation or evasiveness | 1 answer |
| Stall for time | 4 answers |
| Dawdle | 66 answers |
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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
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TEMPORIZE (5)
Finding me determined, he began to temporize, and asked that the landing be put off until the next day, that he might consult with his head people, for if I sent them on shore before he had done so they would kill them.
But to a man in Dorset’s mood the completest demonstration could not carry conviction, and Selden saw that for the moment all he could do was to soothe and temporize, to offer sympathy and to counsel prudence.
Causton found himself by no means anxious to drive away some thirty of his best settlers, who stood well with Oglethorpe and the Trustees, and had given him all their trade for supplies, so he began to temporize.
Commerce is naturally adverse to all the violent passions; it loves to temporize, takes delight in compromise, and studiously avoids irritation.
Sweet and plaintive as the child’s face was, it had a glimmer of wildness and a hunted look, that baffled Aunt Jane a little, and compelled her to temporize.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1973).