Crossword-Solution: DETRITION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Detrition | n. | A wearing off or away. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “DETRITION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| WEARING away by rubbing | 1 answer |
| act of rubbing or wearing away by friction | 1 answer |
| rubbing away | 2 answers |
| Wearing | 63 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
MAZEEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DETRITION (5)
And when, a hundred years hence, some antiquary reads this story in a number of the "Omaha Intelligencer," which has escaped the detrition of the thirty-six thousand days and nights, he will say,-- "Why, this was the beginning of what we do now! Only these people seem to have taken care of strangers only one month in the twelve.
For however hard and repulsive a front any study or science may present to the great body of those who are as laymen in regard of it, there is yet inevitably such a detrition as this continually going forward, and one which it would be well worth while to trace in detail.
Nowadays it has become the custom to place these slabs upright against the walls, thus preventing further detrition.
There is the gradual invisible detrition of rings upon the finger, of stones hollowed out by dripping water, of the ploughshare in the field, and the flags upon the streets, and the brazen statues of the gods whose fingers men kiss as they pass the gates, and the rocks that the salt sea-brine eats into along the shore.
The site or lie of the city is principally in two hollow basins, in which the detrition of houses forms now a soil for grain, for fruit gardens and good tobacco.