Crossword-Solution: DECEDENT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Decedent | a. | Removing; departing. |
| Decedent | n. | A deceased person. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “DECEDENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Figure in a murder mystery | 1 answer |
| Person departed. | 1 answer |
| Silent partner in a will fight | 1 answer |
| Will writer, at a will reading | 1 answer |
| Will's writer | 1 answer |
| deceased person | 2 answers |
| DEAD person | 3 answers |
| Whodunit figure | 4 answers |
| Decease | 51 answers |
| Deceased | 70 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 DECEDENT (5)
Does anyone doubt it in this case? It is true that no one actually saw the prisoner kill the decedent, and that he has so successfully hidden the body that it has not been found, but the powerful chain of circumstances, clear and close-linked, proving motive, the criminal agency, and the criminal act, is overwhelming.
Delancy, widow of a son of the decedent, was one of the legatees, and she was visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs.
There is an awful silence as Judge Davis adds: "I will further produce before your Honor, Armand Valois, the only other heir of the decedent, to whom the succession would fall by law.
Heirs were firstly sons, then daughters, then grandsons per stirpes, then granddaughters per stirpes, then brothers, and then sisters of the decedent.
Any distribution of chattels would take place after all the decedent's debts were paid from the property.
Quotes with DECEDENT (2)
Envy and respect are not the same things... Before I endow you with respect, I should find out whether your curiosity is intellectual or merely morbid. Not that those who gawk at train derailments are so different from those who conduct autopsies; both want, at some level, to know what has happened, and, by extension, what will happen. Did the liver fail because of the decedent's alcoholism or was some toxin administered? If the deliverer is found, he or she may be imprisoned…
That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and suicide: death itself. For before the white men came to Guinea to strip-mine field hands. ... black people did not die ... the decedent ... took up residence in an afterworld that was in many ways indistinguishable from his former estate.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1960–2011).