Crossword-Solution: ACQUIRED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Acquired | imp. & p. p. | of Acquire |
We have 9 clues for the answer “ACQUIRED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Came into possession of | 1 answer |
| Came to have. | 1 answer |
| Sound a group of singers had picked up | 1 answer |
| Got hold of | 3 answers |
| Took on | 7 answers |
| Obtained | 8 answers |
| Got ___? | 13 answers |
| acquiring | 41 answers |
| Exterior | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ECNARO
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with ACQUIRED (5)
Covey had acquired a very high reputation for breaking young slaves, and this reputation was of immense value to him.
Perhaps he did not remember—perhaps he had never noticed! Emil was already at the other end of the hall, walking about with the shoulder-motion he had acquired among the Mexicans, studying the floor with his intent, deep-set eyes.
But if she was to be the practical woman she had intended to show herself, business must be carried on, introductions or none, and she ultimately acquired confidence enough to speak and reply boldly to men merely known to her by hearsay.
They were ancient sea-captains, for the most part, who, after being tossed on every sea, and standing up sturdily against life’s tempestuous blast, had finally drifted into this quiet nook, where, with little to disturb them, except the periodical terrors of a Presidential election, they one and all acquired a new lease of existence.
Now by the action of natural selection, all terrestrial plants have acquired a resisting power against bacterial diseases—they never succumb without a severe struggle, but the red weed rotted like a thing already dead.
Quotes with ACQUIRED (3)
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.
In my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the old Indian orators acquired the habit of carefully arranging their thoughts. They listened to the warbling of birds and noted the grandeur and the beauties of the forest. The majestic clouds — which appear like mountains of granite floating in the air — the golden tints of a summer evening sky, and the changes of nature, possessed a mysterious significance. A…
At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt they could never drag themselves out of the pit of despond into which they had fallen. Therefore they forced themselves never to think about the problematic day of escape, to cease looking to the future, and always to keep, so to speak, their eyes fixed on the ground at their feet. But, naturally enough, this prudence, this habit of feinting with their predicament and refusing…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1968).