Crossword-Solution: ENLIST
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Enlist | v. t. | To enter on a list; to enroll; to register. |
| Enlist | v. t. | To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men. |
| Enlist | v. t. | To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a charitable enterprise. |
| Enlist | v. i. | To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the war. |
| Enlist | v. i. | To enter heartily into a cause, as if enrolled. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ENLIST | anagram | ESTLIN, INLETS, LETINS, LETSIN, LISTEN, SILENT, SLIENT, TESLIN, TINSEL |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ENLIST (5)
When Fred’s mother went to him and with clasped hands entreated an explanation, he told her that the only trouble was that he couldn’t hold enough wine to make life endurable, so he was going to get out from under and enlist in the navy.
But for your detestable yellow hair and your white skin you would be an honour to the First Born of Barsoom.” “I am no thern,” I said, and was about to explain that I was from another world, thinking that by patching a truce with these fellows and fighting with them against the therns I might enlist their aid in regaining my liberty.
Nevertheless, interest on the grass-roots level gradually grew and Randolph's idea was transformed into a project involving scores of organizers all across the country, all of whom were working diligently to enlist potential marchers.
This Saxon lord had arrayed his tall and strong person in armour, in order to take his place among the combatants; and, considerably to the surprise of Cedric, had chosen to enlist himself on the part of the Knight Templar.
Von Horn was always searching for an opportunity to enlist the aid of the friendly natives in an effort to regain the chest, but so far he had found none who would agree to accompany him even in consideration of a large share of the booty.
Quotes with ENLIST (3)
My parents didn't settle for the lives their parents lived. They stepped out and up, my father lying his way into the Navy when he was too young to enlist, my mother marrying this fugitive from the mills when she was too young for marriage. A smart guy, he took every course the Navy offered, aced them all, becoming the youngest chief warrant officer in the service. After Pearl Harbor the Navy needed line officers fast and my dad was suddenly wearing gold stripes. My mother wa…
The argument that there are just wars often rests on the social system of the nation engaging in war. It is supposed that if a ‘liberal’ state is at war with a ‘totalitarian’ state, then the war is justified. The beneficent nature of a government was assumed to give rightness to the wars it wages. ... Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt were liberals, which gave credence to their words exalting the two world wars, just as the liberalism of Truman made going into Korea more …
As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the confrontation with the enemies of our civilization became more acute, when he sent off various applications to enlist in the armed forces. I didn't want to be involved in this decision either way, especially since I was being regularly taunted for not having 'sent' any of my children to fight in the wars of resistance that I suppor…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 205 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).