Crossword-Solution: DETRITUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Detritus | n. | A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus. |
| Detritus | n. | Hence: Any fragments separated from the body to which they belonged; any product of disintegration. |
We have 29 clues for the answer “DETRITUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Accumulated debris | 1 answer |
| loose material that is worn away from rocks | 1 answer |
| loose mass of stones and silt worn away from rocks | 1 answer |
| Waste, debris | 1 answer |
| Rubble, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Post-party confetti, for example | 1 answer |
| Miscellaneous remnants | 1 answer |
| Left over bits and pieces | 1 answer |
| Erosion result | 1 answer |
| Eroded rock particles | 1 answer |
| Eroded rock | 1 answer |
| Eroded matter | 1 answer |
| Accumulation of debris | 1 answer |
| Rock fragments | 2 answers |
| DETRITION-produced matter | 2 answers |
| ALLUVIUM | 9 answers |
| Rubble | 9 answers |
| moraine | 10 answers |
| A RUDACEOUS ROCK CONSISTING OF SHARP FRAGMENTS EMBEDDED IN CLAY OR SAND | 10 answers |
| Dregs | 27 answers |
| Debris | 31 answers |
| Leavings | 39 answers |
| Deposit | 43 answers |
| Garbage | 53 answers |
| Soil | 63 answers |
| Trash | 69 answers |
| Drift | 70 answers |
| Waste | 83 answers |
| Aggregation | 83 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 DETRITUS (5)
Everything was there, every trade was represented, every class of society; things of iron and cloth and wood; all the detritus that a great city sloughs off in its daily life.
Death is only real for all the detritus of the world, for all the sorrow, for all the injustice, for all the grief.
The glacial erosion of most of the Shasta lavas gives rise to detritus composed of rough subangular boulders of moderate size and porous gravel and sand, which yields freely to the transporting power of running water.
Occasionally in the spring, great masses of this detritus slide down the mountains, and cover the snow-drifts in the valleys, thus forming natural ice-houses.
But Cerizet would not allow that extreme measure; he remarked that after the autopsy of a straw mattress such detritus would remain upon the floor as must infallibly give rise to suspicion.
Quotes with DETRITUS (3)
There was so much filth to clean up; so many broken pieces to fix; so many errors to correct. Every morning she left her house she let out a quiet sigh, as if in one breath she could will away detritus of the previous day.--Three Daughters of Eve
We are stripped of all that gave value and substance to our existence: power and love; in this naked final state, our last lover, our mate, death, comes. Bereft, without cover, we face the elements that will undo us. The winter breakers crash over and through us, flaunting their vigor and our nullity, as if the entire cosmos were now taking its ultimate revenge on the human creature who has lived too long: the dying sun mocks us from the west, for it will return tomorrow to d…
Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the flow and rush into the future. This was in a less cynical time before toxic waste dumping and pollution filled the waterway of Chronus with the detritus of empty hours wasted minutes years of repetition and time that has been killed.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1999–2023).