Crossword-Solution: DIGESTIVE 9 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Digestive a. Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or
promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.
Digestive n. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.
Digestive n. A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer,
promotes suppuration.
Digestive n. A tonic.

We have 9 clues for the answer “DIGESTIVE”

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Kind of tract 1 answer
Like some tracts 1 answer
Word with tract or juice 1 answer
any substance that promotes digestion 1 answer
Food system 2 answers
type of biscuit 3 answers
Peptic ___ 3 answers
ALIMENTARY 18 answers
Nutritious 26 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DIGESTIVE (5)

The physiological advantages of the practice of injection are undeniable, if one thinks of the tremendous waste of human time and energy occasioned by eating and the digestive process.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
Combined Health Information Database - For professionals, patients, and the general public, CHID contains references to a variety of materials on arthritis, diabetes, health education, digestive diseases, and high blood pressure.
The Online World Odd de Presno 1993
They knitted worthless things; but, the mechanical work was a mechanical substitute for eating and drinking; the hands moved for the jaws and the digestive apparatus: if the bony fingers had been still, the stomachs would have been more famine-pinched.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
There is an almost irresistible temptation to reverse the “multum legendum esse non multa” of Quintilian, overwhelmed as we are with books, magazines, and newspapers, which no man can number, and of which thousands and tens of thousands of minds endeavor to gobble up all they can; and yet, from want of all digestive and assimilating power, they are pitiably famished and deadened.
Introduction to Robert Browning Hiram Corson 2008
For many natures there is not much charm in the still, chambered society, the circle of bland countenances, the digestive silence, the admired remark, the flutter of affectionate approval.
Memories and Portraits Robert Louis Stevenson 2010

Quotes with DIGESTIVE (3)

[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at a time when we had no concept of physics, chemistry, biology or medicine. We did not know that we lived on a round planet, let alone that the said planet was in orbit in a minor and obscure solar system, which was also on the edge of an unimaginably vast cosmos that was exploding away from its original source of energy. We did not know that micro-organisms wer…
Christopher Hitchens The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
I explained my opinion of the ship’s logic. “That is a strange designation,” said the ship. “While I have certain organic elements incorporated into my substructure and decentralized DNA computing components, I am not — in the strictest sense of the term — a biological organism. I have no digestive system. No need for elimination, other than the occasional waste gas and passenger effluvium. Therefore, I have no anus in either real or figurative terms. Therefore, I hardly beli…
Dan Simmons The Rise of Endymion
Bombs Away!" he yelled, swooping low over Strega Schloss. He saw little figures on the ground fleeing from the large green projectile that was speeding their way. "And a direct hit, if I'm not mistaken," he observed to himself. With a tremendous slapping sound, Ffup's digestive overload landed on a human target. There was a scream, a ghastly choking sound, and then silence.
Debi Gliori Pure Dead Magic
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Appears in: NYT, WSJ.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1976–2024).