Crossword-Solution: AGONIST
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Agonist | n. | One who contends for the prize in public games. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| AGONIST | anagram | GITANOS |
We have 16 clues for the answer “AGONIST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Competitor or contestant | 1 answer |
| Drug that attaches to receptors in the brain | 1 answer |
| MUSCLE bearing the responsibility for causing a certain movement | 1 answer |
| MUSCLE responsible for a particular movement | 1 answer |
| MUSCLE whose contractions are primarily responsible for a particular movement | 1 answer |
| One engaged in a struggle | 1 answer |
| One in a conflict | 1 answer |
| One in a struggle | 1 answer |
| One struggling | 1 answer |
| Participant in a struggle | 1 answer |
| Person in a conflict | 1 answer |
| Type of drug that activates a receptor | 1 answer |
| ANTAGONIST (ant.) | 3 answers |
| Contracting muscle | 3 answers |
| prime mover | 15 answers |
| BODY muscle(s) | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AGONIST (5)
But in the centre of the whole temple was an altar, high and broad, fenced about with steps and a rail, which I took to be made unto the god of gods or perhaps the king of that country, until I saw the black cross and the Agonist hanging from it as one dead.
Suffice it that I learned this concerning the Agonist, that he was the son of the goddess and greater than she, though in a sense less.
Sometimes, one glimpses a little too long behind his work not the heroic agonist, but the man who loved to languish in mournful salons, attired in furred dressing gowns.
Reproach she looks, about, above, Denied her light, denied her love, Denied for what she sacrificed, Doomed to be fruitless agonist.
Such a patient is a kind of bad gymnast, executing an exercise known to be hard by contracting all the muscles of the region, both the antagonist and the agonist muscles.
Quotes with AGONIST (1)
winning or losing an agonist encounter has a dramatic impact on future aggressive behavior. Winners are more likely to initiate attacks against unknown opponents, whereas losers are more circumspect and likely to retreat from unfamiliar conspecifics, adopting an opportunistic strategy, picking and choosing their fights. In the worst case scenario, animals socially subjugated by constant threat and attack from dominant conspecifics develop a submissive phenotype, showing littl…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Newsday, NYT, WP, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1981–2022).