Crossword-Solution: ALTERING 8 letters, 57 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Altering p. pr. & vb. n. of Alter

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ALTERING anagram ALERTING, INTEGRAL, LINGERAT, RELATING, TANGLIER, TERAGLIN, TRIANGLE

We have 57 clues for the answer “ALTERING”

Clue Answers
Making new hems, e.g. 1 answer
Making changes to 1 answer
Letting out, maybe 1 answer
Editorial task 1 answer
Doing tailor's work 1 answer
Modifying or changing something 1 answer
Transforming. 2 answers
Tailor's chore 2 answers
Making changes 2 answers
Tailor's task 3 answers
ASSIGN TO A NEW TASK 10 answers
metamorphosing 43 answers
shrivelling 43 answers
flexing 43 answers
degenerating 43 answers
Tensing 43 answers
constricting 44 answers
tightening 44 answers
truncation 44 answers
withdrawing 45 answers
curtailment 46 answers
Sinking ___ 47 answers
contracting 47 answers
waning 49 answers
deteriorating 49 answers
Abridgement 50 answers
reducing 50 answers
decrement 50 answers
dropping 51 answers
pulling 51 answers
abating 51 answers
draining 53 answers
Diminution 54 answers
DIMINISHING ___ 56 answers
compendium 56 answers
shrinkage 61 answers
constriction 61 answers
decreasing 62 answers
squeezing 62 answers
Shrinking ___ 64 answers
dwindling 68 answers
receding 68 answers
Shortening 68 answers
remission 69 answers
Declining 70 answers
Abatement 72 answers
Contraction 72 answers
Degeneration 74 answers
Lowering. 75 answers
Lessening 76 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ALTERING (5)

The drive to create a black identity which can be worn with pride and the emergence of independent African nations already have made a significant impact in altering American racial stereotypes.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
The Jew remained, without altering his position, for nearly three hours, at the expiry of which steps were heard on the dungeon stair.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
Acting on this plan, I filled in each blank space on the paper, with what the words or phrases on either side of it suggested to me as the speaker’s meaning; altering over and over again, until my additions followed naturally on the spoken words which came before them, and fitted naturally into the spoken words which came after them.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994
She sat by the drawing-room fire after tea, till the moment of Lady Middleton’s arrival, without once stirring from her seat, or altering her attitude, lost in her own thoughts, and insensible of her sister’s presence; and when at last they were told that Lady Middleton waited for them at the door, she started as if she had forgotten that any one was expected.
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1994
Miles went on, following on his train of thought; then, spinning about and tilting his head back: “Yes, yes, I see--I understand: that will give a draught without materially altering the look of things.
Summer Edith Wharton 2006

Quotes with ALTERING (3)

I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to kno…
Colleen Houck
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.
William James
Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making the inexplicable safe for the masses, the possibilities for real illusion-piercing insight becomes reduced. One might say that they are only available to those who dare to ride the breaking crest of direct life-altering experience.
Stephen K. Hayes
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, New Yorker, NYT.

Used 7 times in crossword archives (1943–2023).