Crossword-Solution: BACKWASH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Backwash | v. i. | To clean the oil from (wood) after combing. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “BACKWASH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| water washed backwards by the motion of a boat | 1 answer |
| Unpleasant after-effects | 1 answer |
| Rowing consequence | 1 answer |
| Backward flow of water on beach | 1 answer |
| Resulting state as after a disaster | 2 answers |
| Backtrack? | 11 answers |
| Eddy | 17 answers |
| boondocks | 19 answers |
| hinterland | 32 answers |
| wake | 32 answers |
| Waken | 38 answers |
| Backwater | 40 answers |
| Aftermath | 40 answers |
| repercussion | 48 answers |
| React | 67 answers |
| Effect | 71 answers |
| wave | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BACKWASH (5)
From that front we were hurried down to Cambrai in support, but came in only for the last backwash of that singular battle.
Again, there were the bluebells in the deserted quarry like the backwash of a southern sea, and below them the miniature forest of sheltering bracken with its quaint conceits; and, crowned above all, the day I stood on Watcombe Down, and looked across a stretch of golden gorse and new-turned blood-red field, the green of the headland, and beyond, the sapphire sea.
Every time I essayed to plant my legs on the beach, the irresistible backwash swept me down, rolling me head over heels, and in my exhausted condition this filled me with despair.
The last backwash of the movement from the west occurs: a backwash which serves to solve the apparently insuperable diplomatic difficulties and ends the military movement of that period of history.
The backwash drew him with it into deeper water, where he lay helpless and despairing, for he no longer had any strength to struggle against his doom.
Quotes with BACKWASH (1)
Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash.(Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2003).