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Crossword-Solution: ACTION 6 letters, 276 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Action n. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to
rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one
body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by
another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of
action.
Action n. An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.):
Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor.
Action n. The event or connected series of events, either real or
imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition;
the unfolding of the drama of events.
Action n. Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.
Action n. Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of
a gun.
Action n. Any one of the active processes going on in an organism;
the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the
muscles, or the gastric juice.
Action n. Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or
the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the
subject, or to the feelings.
Action n. The attitude or position of the several parts of the body
as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
Action n. A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in
a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the
enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a
wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.
Action n. A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every
claim.
Action n. A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or
in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks.
Action n. An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or
water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.
Action n. The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of
the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to
the valve of an organ pipe.

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Word Anagrams
ACTION anagram ACTINO, ANTICO, ATONIC, CATION

We have 276 clues for the answer “ACTION”

Clue Answers
"Lights! Camera! ___!" 1 answer
Battle in the law courts 1 answer
Battle or lawsuit 1 answer
Bruce Willis genre 1 answer
Call before shooting 1 answer
Call on the set 1 answer
Chase scenes, shootouts, etc. 1 answer
Cry on the movie set 1 answer
Director's "Begin!" 1 answer
Director's "Start!" 1 answer
Director's cue 1 answer
Director's shout at the start of a scene 1 answer
Events in a film 1 answer
Fast-moving film genre 1 answer
Fast-moving-film feature 1 answer
Fighting court case 1 answer
Forte of Westerns. 1 answer
Genre for Dwayne Johnson 1 answer
He was warned that the district attorney would process him 1 answer
It follows lights and camera 1 answer
It speaks louder than words 1 answer
Jackie Chan genre 1 answer
Kung fu movie genre 1 answer
Lawsuit; deed 1 answer
Lawsuit; thing done 1 answer
Lure for a gambler 1 answer
Movie director's "Start!" 1 answer
Movie director's cry 1 answer
Movie director's order. 1 answer
Movie director's shout 1 answer
Movie genre with car chases 1 answer
Movie genre, or director's command 1 answer
Moving parts or mechanism. 1 answer
Schwarzenegger film genre 1 answer
Schwarzenegger's film genre 1 answer
Shout from Martin Scorsese 1 answer
Shout that may cause a scene? 1 answer
Soldiers see it 1 answer
Something done 1 answer
Sound stage shout 1 answer
Stallone's genre 1 answer
Stallone's specialty 1 answer
Thing screamed on a set 1 answer
Thriller feature 1 answer
Von Stroheim command 1 answer
What people who hem and haw aren't taking 1 answer
What verbs signify 1 answer
Word on the set 1 answer
___ Bronson, host of the culinary web series "Fuck, That's Delicious" 1 answer
function of the body 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble ACTION6-letter words that start with A6-letter words that end in N6-letter words containing CT6-letter words containing ON6-letter words with A and C

Sentences with ACTION (5)

Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever—it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 Abraham Lincoln 1979
The Piccaninnies, on their part, trusted implicitly to his honour, and their whole action of the night stands out in marked contrast to his.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
The narration should relate to one simple action, consistent with itself, and neither be overladen with a multiplicity of details, nor distracted by a variety of circumstances.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
DIVISION (II) INTERSOCIAL VOLITION[1] [1] Implying the action of the will of one mind over the will of another.
Roget’s Thesaurus Peter Mark Roget 1991
Covey seemed now to think he had me, and could do what he pleased; but at this moment—from whence came the spirit I don’t know—I resolved to fight; and, suiting my action to the resolution, I seized Covey hard by the throat; and as I did so, I rose.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

Quotes with ACTION (3)

Every action either teaches you or blesses you.
Debasish Mridha
The breeding ground of fear is procrastination and inaction. We overcome them not by preparation, but by taking action.
Debasish Mridha
Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a good number of us, when any line of action will promote our own interest, can make ourselves believe that reasons exist which compel us to it as a duty.
Elizabeth Gaskell My Lady Ludlow and Other Stories
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 111 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).