Crossword-Solution: EXTRACTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Extraction | n. | The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture. |
| Extraction | n. | Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended. |
| Extraction | n. | That which is extracted; extract; essence. |
We have 31 clues for the answer “EXTRACTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| extracting | 1 answer |
| Dental operation | 1 answer |
| quarrying | 4 answers |
| fishery | 6 answers |
| disengagement | 11 answers |
| extrication | 12 answers |
| stirps | 12 answers |
| Roots | 20 answers |
| ANCESTORS | 22 answers |
| Heritage | 25 answers |
| mining | 25 answers |
| Backdrop | 25 answers |
| Derivation. | 26 answers |
| Pedigree | 28 answers |
| Genealogy | 28 answers |
| Ancestry | 37 answers |
| family tree | 38 answers |
| Lineage | 40 answers |
| From | 43 answers |
| CHANGE of place | 51 answers |
| Root | 57 answers |
| BLOOD ___ | 57 answers |
| Heredity | 59 answers |
| Excavation. | 62 answers |
| Race | 66 answers |
| Source | 73 answers |
| "___ Family" | 74 answers |
| Origin | 82 answers |
| House | 82 answers |
| Essence | 85 answers |
| Line | 86 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXTRACTION (5)
Oman has proved oil reserves of 4 billion barrels, equivalent to about 20 years' supply at the current rate of extraction.
Fluted pilasters, worked from the solid stone, decorated its front, and above the roof pairs of chimneys were here and there linked by an arch, some gables and other unmanageable features still retaining traces of their Gothic extraction.
How the virtuous servant, Cly, was his friend and partner, and was worthy to be; how the watchful eyes of those forgers and false swearers had rested on the prisoner as a victim, because some family affairs in France, he being of French extraction, did require his making those passages across the Channel--though what those affairs were, a consideration for others who were near and dear to him, forbade him, even for his life, to disclose.
With most of his clients he would have contented himself with the extraction of the loose tooth and the roots of the broken one.
One of them was an American sculptor of French extraction, or remotely, perhaps, of Italian, for he rejoiced in the somewhat fervid name of Gloriani.
Quotes with EXTRACTION (3)
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
For books are not absolutely dead things, but... do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand unless warriors be used, as good almost kill a Man a good Book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good b…
Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers)
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2001).