Crossword-Solution: ACQUIRES 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

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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
ROAECN
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with ACQUIRES (5)

When I wanted to find out the necessary increase of weight required to sink the _Nautilus_, I had only to calculate the reduction of volume that sea-water acquires according to the depth.” “That is evident.” “Now, if water is not absolutely incompressible, it is at least capable of very slight compression.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994
Ether is added and shaken with the liquid, until all the bromine is taken up by the ether, which acquires a fine red color and separates from the saline liquid.
American Handbook of the Daguerrotype Samuel D. Humphrey 1994
Paper impregnated with the acetate of lead, when washed with perfectly neutral chloride of gold, acquires a brownish-yellow hue.
The History and Practice of the Art of Photography Henry H. Snelling 2008
The hand, like the tongue, easily acquires the trick of repetition by rote, without calling in the mind to assist at all; and this had been the case here.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995
Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

Quotes with ACQUIRES (3)

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
Plato The Republic
A person who speaks like a book is exceedingly boring to listen to; sometimes, however, it is not inappropriate to talk in that way. For a book has the remarkable property that it can be interpreted any way you wish. If one talks like a book one’s conversation acquires this property too. I kept quite soberly to the usual formulas. She was surprised, as I’d expected; that can’t be denied. To describe to myself how she looked is difficult. She seemed multifaceted; yes just abou…
Soren Kierkegaard
Jesus’s use of the phrasing “a new commandment” is frequently scanted in light of its implicit ramifications. Because Jesus at the Last Supper has executed the “new covenant” with his disciples, the Great Commandment itself now acquires an unprecedented meaning. Its new meaning belongs to this sudden revelation not merely about who God is but also about what love is. Previously the Great Commandment bade us to love God and our neighbor. Now this love can be comprehended only …
Carl Raschke GloboChrist: The Great Commission Takes a Postmodern Turn
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1956–2023).