Crossword-Solution: ENGINE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Engine | n. | (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill. |
| Engine | n. | Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent. |
| Engine | n. | Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture. |
| Engine | n. | A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect. |
| Engine | v. t. | To assault with an engine. |
| Engine | v. t. | To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another. |
| Engine | v. t. | (Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack; to torture. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with ENGINE (5)
Opening the pasture gate from the saddle, Emil rode across the field to the clearing where the thresher stood, driven by a stationary engine and fed from the header boxes.
Would he arouse him with a throb of agony? The victim was for ever on the rack; it needed only to know the spring that controlled the engine: and the physician knew it well.
But in all of them I heard a certain sound: a thud—thud—thud, like the beating of some big engine; and I discovered, from the flaring of my matches, that a steady current of air set down the shafts.
And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smashing them aside in its career; a walking engine of glittering metal, striding now across the heather; articulate ropes of steel dangling from it, and the clattering tumult of its passage mingling with the riot of the thunder.
But as it happened, a light engine, which made no noise at all, was coming,—ordered out to help with the freight that was piling up at the other end of the division.
Quotes with ENGINE (3)
I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw you - and the only thing I'm ashamed of is that I did not know it. I did not know why, for two years, the brightest moments I found were the ones in your office, where I could lift my head to look up at you. I did not know the nature of what I felt in your presence, nor the reason. I know it now. That is all I want, Hank. I want you in my bed - and you are free of me for all …
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.
Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 181 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).