Crossword-Solution: BATTENED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Battened | imp. & p. p. | of Batten |
We have 9 clues for the answer “BATTENED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fastened tightly, with "down" | 1 answer |
| Grew fat | 1 answer |
| Made watertight, with "down" | 1 answer |
| Secured, as hatches | 1 answer |
| Secured, nautical style. | 1 answer |
| Boarded up. | 2 answers |
| Locked down | 2 answers |
| Secured, with "down" | 2 answers |
| Throve. | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BATTENED (5)
What do you think of Janet Ware for the job? You remember what a shark she was in economics; she simply battened on tables and charts and surveys.
You'd follow it in hunger, and you'd follow it in cold; You'd follow it in solitude and pain; And when you're stiff and battened down let someone whisper "Gold", You're lief to rise and follow it again.
Tell them that I have battened on their blood for twenty years, that I have slain them until even I became tired of what had once been a joy, that I did this unnoticed and unsuspected in the face of every precaution which their civilisation could suggest.
Everything was battened down, the scuppers were awash, and the hawse-holes spouted like fountains after every plunge.
But we mustn’t forget he had been taken out of his knowledge, that he had been sea-sick and battened down below for four days, that he had no general notion of a ship or of the sea, and therefore could have no definite idea of what was happening to him.
Quotes with BATTENED (3)
The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.
I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and that it's the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other that keeps our intercourse from utter banaility.
Cities on the ocean have a choice whether to turn their faces or their backs to the water, lining the shore either with pretty hotels and rich homes or dim warehouses, narrow streets, and greasy piers. All prairie towns turn away from the prairie, however. The huddled houses form a storm-battened island in the midst of endless space.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1946–2012).