Crossword-Solution: DILATES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DILATES | anagram | DETAILS, SATIDLE, TISDALE |
We have 20 clues for the answer “DILATES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Gets bigger, like a pupil | 1 answer |
| Works with pupils? | 1 answer |
| Works with pupils, in a way | 1 answer |
| Widens, as pupils | 1 answer |
| Widens, as a pupil | 1 answer |
| What atropine does | 1 answer |
| What a pupil does in the dark | 1 answer |
| What a pupil does | 1 answer |
| Lets extra light in, in a way | 1 answer |
| Imitates a pupil? | 1 answer |
| Extends in bulk. | 1 answer |
| Expatiates. | 1 answer |
| Becomes wider | 1 answer |
| Gets bigger | 2 answers |
| Becomes larger. | 2 answers |
| Widens | 3 answers |
| Enlarges | 9 answers |
| BECOME wider | 11 answers |
| Swells | 14 answers |
| Expands | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DILATES (5)
LIX With aspect changing still, the beauteous dame Hears what the mournful Maganzese narrates; And, at first mention of Rogero's name, Her radiant face with eager joy dilates.
Romance, on the other hand, dilates upon their piety and heroism and pourtrays in her most glowing and impassioned hues their virtue and magnanimity, the imperishable honour they acquired for themselves, and the great services they rendered to Christianity.
Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be; in this direction their unbounded imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure.
Wherefore, we ought to term white that which dilates the visual ray, and the opposite of this is black.
Then they both came down and sat in their places before the window waiting for Grandet, with that cruel anxiety which, according to the individual character, freezes the heart or warms it, shrivels or dilates it, when a scene is feared, a punishment expected,--a feeling so natural that even domestic animals possess it, and whine at the slightest pain of punishment, though they make no outcry when they inadvertently hurt themselves.
Quotes with DILATES (3)
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener — a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.
Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 27 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).