Crossword-Solution: FLASH
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| Flash | v. i. | To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed. |
| Flash | v. i. | To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash. |
| Flash | v. i. | To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily. |
| Flash | v. t. | To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light. |
| Flash | v. t. | To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind. |
| Flash | v. t. | To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b). |
| Flash | n. | To trick up in a showy manner. |
| Flash | n. | To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash. |
| Flash | n. | A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning. |
| Flash | n. | A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show. |
| Flash | n. | The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period. |
| Flash | n. | A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors. |
| Flash | a. | Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery. |
| Flash | a. | Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry. |
| Flash | n. | Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes. |
| Flash | n. | A pool. |
| Flash | n. | A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with FLASH (5)
Here and there a head bobbed up in the water, and there was a flash of steel followed by a cry or a whoop.
Only once his pace he slackened, Only once he paused or halted, Paused to purchase heads of arrows Of the ancient Arrow-maker, In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley.
Sounds of laughter and splashing came up from the pasture, and when the moon rose rapidly above the bare rim of the prairie, the pond glittered like polished metal, and she could see the flash of white bodies as the boys ran about the edge, or jumped into the water.
His outlook upon time was as a transient flash of the eye now and then: that projection of consciousness into days gone by and to come, which makes the past a synonym for the pathetic and the future a word for circumspection, was foreign to Troy.
Then, in a flash, I perceived that all had the same form of costume, the same soft hairless visage, and the same girlish rotundity of limb.
Quotes with FLASH (3)
I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face, I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your li…
Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to.
Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good man or any good woman awakens the thought of Enlightenment and takes even only four lines from this Discourse, reciting, using, receiving, retaining and spreading them abroad and explaining them for the benefit of others, it will be far more meritorious. Now in what manner may he explain them to others? By detachment from appearances-abiding in Real Trut…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 99 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).