Crossword-Solution: CONSTRICTOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Constrictor | n. | That which constricts, draws together, or contracts. |
| Constrictor | n. | A muscle which contracts or closes an orifice, or which compresses an organ; a sphincter. |
| Constrictor | n. | A serpent that kills its prey by inclosing and crushing it with its folds; as, the boa constrictor. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “CONSTRICTOR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| tourniquet | 3 answers |
| SNAKE killing prey by constriction | 4 answers |
| ABOMA | 6 answers |
| South American snake | 7 answers |
| black snake | 7 answers |
| Boa | 16 answers |
| SNAKE, type of | 37 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CONSTRICTOR (5)
See Boa, and Constrictor.] (Zo”l.) A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long.
Where and why the bison “wallowed”; how beaver were to be trapped and wild turkeys stalked; the grizzly and how to handle him, and the pretty pressing ways of the constrictor,--in fine, the haunts and the habits of all that burrowed, strutted, roared, or wriggled between the Atlantic and the Pacific,--all this knowledge I took for my province.
One day he encountered an ambitious statesman, and gravely inquired after the welfare of his boa constrictor; for of that species, Roderick affirmed, this gentleman’s serpent must needs be, since its appetite was enormous enough to devour the whole country and constitution.
Villa--the magic word! The Great Man, the salient profile, the unconquerable warrior who, even at a distance, exerts the fascination of a reptile, a boa constrictor.
One of them, for instance, was like a boa constrictor walking on four little stumpy legs near its tail.
Quotes with CONSTRICTOR (3)
Then she squeezed me tighter. Her leg came up and wrapped around me. Then she kissed me too hard and our teeth banged together. I felt like a boa constrictor’s dinner.
What use were his talons and fangs to the dying tiger? In the clutches, say, to make matters worse, of a boa-constrictor? But apparently this improbable tiger had no intention of dying just yet. On the contrary, he intended taking a little walk, taking the boa-constrictor with him, even to pretend, for a while, it wasn't there.
The established church of the town of Mansoul has the Devil for its archbishop. Sin has enclasped our nature as a boa constrictor encircles its victim, and when it has maintained its hold for twenty, forty, or sixty years, I hope you are not so foolish as to think that holy things will easily get the mastery.