Crossword-Solution: DILATE 6 letters, 85 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Dilate	v. t.	To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.
Dilate	v. t.	To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely.
Dilate	v. i.	To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.
Dilate	v. i.	To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon.
Dilate	a.	Extensive; expanded.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
DILATE	anagram	DETAIL, DIETAL, EDITAL, TAILED

We have 85 clues for the answer “DILATE”

Clue	Answers
Expand, as a cervix	1 answer
Open wider	1 answer
Make wider or larger	1 answer
Grow, as a pupil	1 answer
Get wider, as pupils	1 answer
Get pupils ready for a test?	1 answer
Extend in size.	1 answer
Expatiate (on).	1 answer
Expand, as pupils	1 answer
Expand, as a pupil	1 answer
Grow wider	1 answer
Expand the pupils	1 answer
Expand pupils	1 answer
Enlarge, like pupils	1 answer
Enlarge, as pupils	1 answer
Cause to expand, as pupils	1 answer
Become larger, as a pupil	1 answer
Become wider, as pupils	1 answer
Broaden, as a pupil	1 answer
Opposite of contract.	1 answer
make or become wider or larger	1 answer
Widen, as the eye's pupils	1 answer
Widen, as pupils	1 answer
Widen, as a pupil	1 answer
Widen like pupils	1 answer
What pupils may do during an exam?	1 answer
What pupils do in the dark	1 answer
What a good pupil should do	1 answer
Undergo mydriasis	1 answer
Swell or expand	1 answer
Speak or write in detail (on a subject).	1 answer
Pupils do it in the dark	1 answer
Open wider, as a pupil	1 answer
Widen, as pupils might in dim light	1 answer
Prepare pupils for examination	1 answer
Prepare pupils for an exam?	1 answer
sufflate	2 answers
End of UNICEF's URL	2 answers
Comment at length	2 answers
Get wider	2 answers
Enlarge upon.	3 answers
Write at length in detail on a subject	4 answers
Become larger.	4 answers
Explain in lengthy detail	4 answers
MAKE wider	5 answers
Open wide	7 answers
BROADEN A BORE	10 answers
BECOME BROADER OR WIDER OR MORE EXTENSIVE	10 answers
A HOUSE ENLARGE	10 answers
ABLE TO EXPAND OR BE EXPANDED	10 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EARET

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Unscramble DILATE 6-letter words that start with D 6-letter words that end in E 6-letter words containing IL 6-letter words containing TE 6-letter words with D and I

Sentences with DILATE (5)

And what will a man such as he be likely to do under such circumstances, especially if he be a citizen of a great city, rich and noble, and a tall proper youth? Will he not be full of boundless aspirations, and fancy himself able to manage the affairs of Hellenes and of barbarians, and having got such notions into his head will he not dilate and elevate himself in the fulness of vain pomp and senseless pride? To be sure he will.

Plato's Republic Plato 2008

Hugo: I see four shadowy altars rise, They seem to swell and dilate in size; Larger and clearer now they loom, Now fires are lighting them through the gloom.

Poems Adam Lindsay Gordon 2008

Alfred, of course, said it was all on account of her wonderful hair; he rather went out of his way to dilate upon the enthusiasm her “colour scheme”--whatever that might mean--excited in him as an artist.

The Market-Place Harold Frederic 2008

Because he was tired of me.” The words, uttered scarcely above a whisper, seemed to dilate to the limit of the room.

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 2 (of 10) Edith Wharton 1995

This is not the moment to dilate on that mighty place of education, which was the favourite school of Dickens and of Balzac, and turns out yearly many inglorious masters in the Science of the Aspects of Life.

Virginibus Puerisque Robert Louis Stevenson 2012

Quotes with DILATE (3)

And here, finally here in this place, in these circumstances, I will really have to kill him. And Snow will win. Hot, bitter hatred courses through me. Snow has won too much already today. It's a long shot, it's suicide maybe, but I do the only thing I can think of. I lean in and kiss Peeta full on the mouth. His whole body starts shuddering, but I keep my lips pressed to his until I have to come up for air. My hands slide up his wrists to clasp his. "Don't let him take you f…

Suzanne Collins Mockingjay

Poetry...... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyesthat can dilate, hair that can rise

Marianne Moore Complete Poems

His pupils dilate when he sees me. His lips part as he momentarily forgets to marshal his expression, and I could swear he stops breathing for several heartbeats.

Susan Ee Angelfall

Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 109 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).