Crossword-Solution: GRATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Grate | a. | Serving to gratify; agreeable. |
| Grate | n. | A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters. |
| Grate | n. | A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning. |
| Grate | v. t. | To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars; as, to grate a window. |
| Grate | v. t. | To rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another, causing a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth; to produce (a harsh sound) by rubbing. |
| Grate | v. t. | To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg. |
| Grate | v. t. | To fret; to irritate; to offend. |
| Grate | v. i. | To make a harsh sound by friction. |
| Grate | v. i. | To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GRATE | anagram | GATER, GREAT, GRETA, RETAG, TARGE, TERGA, TREGA |
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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 GRATE (5)
They took me to Greenhill Fair, and into a grate large jerry-go-nimble show, where there were women-folk riding round—standing upon horses, with hardly anything on but their smocks, but it didn’t cure me a morsel.
And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?” He took up his pipe, and began, in his old accustomed manner, to tap with it nervously upon the bars of the grate.
They went into the living-room, behind the studio, where the two children were playing on the big rug before the coal grate.
Nobody under the table, nobody under the sofa; a small fire in the grate; spoon and basin ready; and the little saucepan of gruel (Scrooge had a cold in his head) upon the hob.
They lost count of the sounds around them, of the dropping of crisp ash from the grate, of the monotonous ticking of the clock, of the soft, almost imperceptible rustle of something on the floor close beside them.
Quotes with GRATE (3)
The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so the names at the top and bottom had gone up in smoke. But there was enough of the bold black scrawl to reveal that it had indeed been a love letter. And as Hannah read the singed and half-destroyed parchment, she was forced to turn away to hide the trembling of her hand. — should warn you that this letter will not be eloquent. However, it will be sincere, especially in light of t…
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, p…
When I was twelve, my sixth-grade English class went on a field trip to see Franco Zeffirelli’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. From that moment forward I dreamed that someday I’d meet my own Juliet. I’d marry her and I would love her with the same passion and intensity as Romeo. The factthat their marriage lasted fewer than three days before they both were deaddidn’t seem to affect my fantasy. Even if they had lived, I don’t think theirrelationship could h…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 193 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).