Crossword-Solution: WHETTED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Whetted | imp. & p. p. | of Whet |
We have 13 clues for the answer “WHETTED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Piqued or honed | 1 answer |
| Sparked, as one's appetite | 1 answer |
| Stimulated, as one's appetite | 1 answer |
| Like some appetites | 3 answers |
| Sharpen-ed | 7 answers |
| BIG APPETITES | 10 answers |
| unblunted | 16 answers |
| penetrative | 18 answers |
| perfervid | 18 answers |
| Honed | 22 answers |
| appetent | 25 answers |
| Athirst | 27 answers |
| stimulated | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WHETTED (5)
Here and there a brief remark was appended to a date, usually no more than a single word: “double” occurring perhaps six times in a total of several hundred entries; and once very early in the list and followed by several marks of exclamation, “total failure!!!” All this, though it whetted my curiosity, told me little that was definite.
Two human bodies would have but whetted the creature’s appetite, and that he had killed and eaten the green man and the red girl seemed only too likely to Carthoris.
Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood.
There were, however, some such as Josie, Jim, and Ben,--they to whom War, Hell, and Slavery were but childhood tales, whose young appetites had been whetted to an edge by school and story and half-awakened thought.
Yet it did little to satisfy my longings for the woman I had lost; rather it whetted my cravings to be with her again, or at least to have some knowledge of her fate.
Quotes with WHETTED (3)
I was now well prepared to be a career criminal. I had the proper training and a natural feel for the business. I had a respect for the old-liners like Angelo and Don Frederico. I had been a witness to both murder and betrayal and had my appetite whetted for acts of revenge. I just didn't have the stomach for any of it. I didn't want my life to be a lonely and sinister on, where even the closest of friends could overnight turn into an enemy who needed to be eliminated. If I w…
Those whose eyes twenty-five and more years before had seen "the glory of the coming of the Lord," saw in every present hindrance or help a dark fatalism bound to bring all things right in His own good time. The mass of those to whom slavery was a dim recollection of childhood found the world a puzzling thing: it asked little of them, and they answered with little, and yet it ridiculed their offering. Such a paradox they could not understand, and therefore sank into listless …
Ned seemed so different from any other man of her acquaintance, and, certainly, the antithesis of the rake she had set her sights on. She had chosen DeVere as her best prospect, yet after only this short time in Ned's company, she couldn't help fervently wishing that he was DeVere. She should feel triumphant that her goal was within easy reach... In truth, it was as if her appetite had been whetted for beefsteak... only to be served liver instead.-A WILD NIGHT'S BRIDE
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2002–2019).