Crossword-Solution: ECLIPSE 7 letters, 111 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Eclipse	n.	An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet.
Eclipse	n.	The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness.
Eclipse	v. t.	To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun.
Eclipse	v. t.	To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing.
Eclipse	v. i.	To suffer an eclipse.

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Word		Anagrams
ECLIPSE	anagram	EPICLES

We have 111 clues for the answer “ECLIPSE”

Clue	Answers
"Total" 2017 event visible in a coast-to-coast path from Oregon to South Carolina	1 answer
"Total" solar event	1 answer
8/21/17 event	1 answer
8/21/2017 celestial event	1 answer
Ancient's omen	1 answer
Blackout of a sort	1 answer
Celestial obscuration	1 answer
Cover-up at the highest levels?	1 answer
Cover-up of astronomical proportions	1 answer
Cover-up witnessed by millions?	1 answer
Darkness at noon?	1 answer
Dull time for male duck	1 answer
Event of March 7, 1970	1 answer
HIDE by interposing	1 answer
Heavenly phenomenon due March 7, 1951.	1 answer
High-level cover-up?	1 answer
Intervention, of a sort	1 answer
It may be lunar or solar	1 answer
It may leave you in the dark	1 answer
It's seldom total	1 answer
January 29th's headline.	1 answer
Leave in the shade	1 answer
Lunar or solar event	1 answer
Moonlight blockage	1 answer
New Moon follower	1 answer
Obscuration of one heavenly body by another	1 answer
One on 9/22/2006 had a central duration of 7 minutes, 9 seconds	1 answer
Programming tool whose logo features a crescent moon	1 answer
Reduce to second-best	1 answer
Render unremarkable	1 answer
Shadow maker	1 answer
Shadow-creating astronomical event	1 answer
Shadow-creating event	1 answer
Show where the main event is always blocked	1 answer
Solar __ (blocking of the sun's light by the moon)	1 answer
Solar or lunar event	1 answer
Sun block of a sort	1 answer
Sun-blocking astronomical event	1 answer
Temporary darkening	1 answer
Temporary obscurity.	1 answer
Third book in the "Twilight" series	1 answer
Total or partial event	1 answer
Umbra-creating event	1 answer
Upstage, say	1 answer
cut off the sun s light	1 answer
obscuration	1 answer
occultation	1 answer
one celestial body obscures another	1 answer
outrival	1 answer
Astronomer's interest	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RETEA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with ECLIPSE (5)

During this long period these fables seem to have suffered an eclipse, to have disappeared and to have been forgotten; and it is at the commencement of the fourteenth century, when the Byzantine emperors were the great patrons of learning, and amidst the splendors of an Asiatic court, that we next find honors paid to the name and memory of Aesop.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

The revulsion from her indignant mood a little earlier, when she had meditated upon compromised honour, forestalment, eclipse by another, was violent and entire.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

For a minute perhaps I stared aghast at this blackness that was creeping over the day, and then I realised that an eclipse was beginning.

The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

Between its release in 1978 and its eclipse by {killer micro}s after about 1986, the VAX was probably the hacker's favorite machine of them all, esp.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

For miles he had sensed the approach of succour, and but for that single tell-tale glance the battleship would have been directly above us in another moment, and the boarding party which was doubtless even now swinging in their harness from the ship’s keel, would have swarmed our deck, placing my rising hope of escape in sudden and total eclipse.

The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with ECLIPSE (3)

Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God. Men, out of pride, may claim their own authorities over what constitutes good and evil; they may self-proclaim a keen knowledge of subjective morality through religion or science. But that is only if they are acknowledging the work of evil as a cartoon-like, petty little rain cloud in the sky that merely wants to dampen one's spirits. On th…

Criss Jami Killosophy

He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.

Stephenie Meyer Eclipse

The darkest things of this world nestle inseparable from, and do not eclipse, its equally boundless graces and glories.

Brian Awehali

Where this answer appears

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

Used 109 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).