Crossword-Solution: APPROVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Approve | v. t. | To show to be real or true; to prove. |
| Approve | v. t. | To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically. |
| Approve | v. t. | To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial. |
| Approve | v. t. | To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration. |
| Approve | v. t. | To make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance. |
| Approve | v. t. | To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; -- said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor. |
We have 102 clues for the answer “APPROVE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Commend; ratify | 1 answer |
| Consider right | 1 answer |
| Sanction officially. | 1 answer |
| consider good or right | 1 answer |
| hold with | 1 answer |
| judge to be right or commendable | 1 answer |
| Rubber-stamp, say | 2 answers |
| Give the OK to | 3 answers |
| PRONOUNCE good | 3 answers |
| goodo | 3 answers |
| Give the nod (to) | 4 answers |
| Give the go-ahead to | 4 answers |
| Say "yes" to | 5 answers |
| Think well of | 5 answers |
| Give the okay | 5 answers |
| CONSIDER good | 5 answers |
| Say "yes" | 6 answers |
| approbate | 6 answers |
| Sign off on | 6 answers |
| DOWNGRADE (ant.) | 7 answers |
| Give the OK | 9 answers |
| Green-light | 9 answers |
| ALL correct | 10 answers |
| Rubber-stamp | 11 answers |
| Vouchsafe | 12 answers |
| Give the go-ahead | 13 answers |
| legalise | 13 answers |
| Give a stamp of approval | 15 answers |
| Make into Law | 15 answers |
| condone | 17 answers |
| will do | 17 answers |
| Consent (to) | 20 answers |
| "Right you are!" | 20 answers |
| Ratify | 25 answers |
| Clap | 25 answers |
| Agree to | 27 answers |
| Deign | 27 answers |
| Accede | 28 answers |
| Certify | 28 answers |
| panegyrise | 30 answers |
| MAKE possible | 30 answers |
| authenticate | 31 answers |
| Accredit | 31 answers |
| Canonise | 32 answers |
| Consecrate | 33 answers |
| Recommend | 33 answers |
| Enshrine | 34 answers |
| Concur | 35 answers |
| o k | 35 answers |
| beatify | 35 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with APPROVE (5)
Why hast thou, _Satan_, broke the bounds prescrib’d To thy transgressions, and disturbd the charge Of others, who approve not to transgress By thy example, but have power and right To question thy bold entrance on this place; Imploi’d it seems to violate sleep, and those Whose dwelling God hath planted here in bliss? To whom thus _Satan_ with contemptuous brow.
And for the disobedient thus I pray: May the gods send them neither timely fruits Of earth, nor teeming increase of the womb, But may they waste and pine, as now they waste, Aye and worse stricken; but to all of you, My loyal subjects who approve my acts, May Justice, our ally, and all the gods Be gracious and attend you evermore.
Hence it is that I cannot in any degree approve of those restless and busy meddlers who, called neither by birth nor fortune to take part in the management of public affairs, are yet always projecting reforms; and if I thought that this tract contained aught which might justify the suspicion that I was a victim of such folly, I would by no means permit its publication.
However, many militants like Frederick Douglass did not approve of black nationalism and colonization.
Higgins' job was to approve controversial material, but it gener- ally didn't surround only one reporter, on so many different stories within such a short time span.
Quotes with APPROVE (3)
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
Bitch (noun): A woman who won't bang her head against the wall obsessing over someone else's opinion - be it a man or anyone else in her life. She understands that if someone does not approve of her, it's just one person's opinion; therefore, it's of no real importance. She doesn't try to live up to anyone else's standards - only her own. Because of this, she relates to a man very differently.
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).