Crossword-Solution: GRATIFY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gratify | v. t. | To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc. |
| Gratify | v. t. | To requite; to recompense. |
We have 35 clues for the answer “GRATIFY”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Yield to a whim | 1 answer |
| GIVE free course to | 1 answer |
| meet with approval | 2 answers |
| Fulfill, as one's desires | 2 answers |
| Make a present of | 3 answers |
| Give pleasure to | 4 answers |
| ARRIDE | 4 answers |
| grease the palm | 7 answers |
| Pander | 10 answers |
| cater | 11 answers |
| BE PLEASING (TO) | 11 answers |
| FOOT the bill | 12 answers |
| MAKE plump | 13 answers |
| Quench | 16 answers |
| MAKE replete | 17 answers |
| CATER (TO) | 17 answers |
| Pamper | 23 answers |
| Gladden | 27 answers |
| Coddle | 28 answers |
| CRAM ___ | 34 answers |
| fulfil | 34 answers |
| Appease | 35 answers |
| Dedicate | 37 answers |
| Lend | 38 answers |
| Please? | 39 answers |
| Pay Back | 42 answers |
| wreak | 46 answers |
| Assuage | 46 answers |
| Recompense | 47 answers |
| Indulge | 50 answers |
| Fill up | 59 answers |
| Favour | 64 answers |
| Suit | 70 answers |
| Give __ | 77 answers |
| Delight | 83 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GRATIFY (5)
Could we pause to give another picture of his daily life, with all the appliances now at command to gratify his instinct for the Beautiful, the garden scenes, that seemed so sweet to him, would look mean and trivial in comparison.
His hands and arms moved convulsively, as if struggling with the nightmare; and besides several ejaculations in Hebrew, the following were distinctly heard in the Norman-English, or mixed language of the country: “For the sake of the God of Abraham, spare an unhappy old man! I am poor, I am penniless—should your irons wrench my limbs asunder, I could not gratify you!” The Palmer awaited not the end of the Jew’s vision, but stirred him with his pilgrim’s staff.
When he has nothing left, must not his desires, crowding in the nest like young ravens, be crying aloud for food; and he, goaded on by them, and especially by love himself, who is in a manner the captain of them, is in a frenzy, and would fain discover whom he can defraud or despoil of his property, in order that he may gratify them? Yes, that is sure to be the case.
Elton detained him, to gratify him by her opinion of his son; and so briskly did she begin, that the young man himself, though by no means moving slowly, could hardly be out of hearing.
Eustatia the day after my union with Julia, who will accompany me.” Belcour promised to fulfil the request of his friend, though nothing was farther from his intentions, than the least design of delivering the letter, or making Charlotte acquainted with the provision Montraville had made for her; he was bent on the complete ruin of the unhappy girl, and supposed, by reducing her to an entire dependance on him, to bring her by degrees to consent to gratify his ungenerous passion.
Quotes with GRATIFY (3)
Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting comfort. Mundus vult decipi, but there is a hierarchy of deceptions. Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism: a steady stream of irresponsible distortions that most people find refreshing although on the morning after, or at least within a week, it will be stale and flat. On a higher level we find fictions that men eagerly believe, regardless o…
(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:)"[W]hile we perceive ... the zeal and love of your mind towards us is not diminished, yet in part we are grieved that we cannot gratify your Serene Highness with the same kind of affection. And that indeed does not happen because we doubt in any way of your love and honour, but, as often we have testified both in words and writing, that we have never yet conceived a feeling of that kind of affection towards anyone. …
I do not say that there is no glory to be gained [in war]; but it is not personal glory. In itself, no cause was ever more glorious than that of men who struggle, not to conquer territory, not to gather spoil, not to gratify ambition, but for freedom, for religion, for hearth and home, and to revenge the countless atrocities inflicted upon them by their oppressors.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1969–2014).