Crossword-Solution: HYENA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hyena | n. | Any carnivorous mammal of the family Hyaenidae, of which three living species are known. They are large and strong, but cowardly. They feed chiefly on carrion, and are nocturnal in their habits. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| HYENA | anagram | HANEY, HAYNE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with HYENA (5)
Twice more he saw him hurl his arrows of destruction—once at Dango, the hyena, and again at Manu, the monkey.
That I have no quarrel with him, nor has he any with me.” “He says,” replied Abdul, after delivering this message to the Arab, “that besides being a dog yourself that you are the son of one, and that your grandmother was a hyena.
From the dense jungles upon either side came the weird night cries of the carnivora—the maniacal voice of the hyena, the coughing grunt of the panther, the deep and awful roar of the lion.
Korak shouted down at him, calling him, in the language of the great apes, “Old green-eyed eater of carrion,” “Brother of Dango,” the hyena, and other choice appellations of jungle opprobrium.
Rochester talks about the metal welkin when he means the sky; and as for the mad woman who laughs like a hyena and sets fire to bed curtains and tears up wedding veils and BITES--it's melodrama of the purest, but just the same, you read and read and read.
Quotes with HYENA (3)
Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page.
There were, however, a few exceptions. One was Norma Dodsworth, the poet, who had not unpleasantly drunk but had been sensible enough to pass out before any violent action proved necessary. He had been deposited, not very gently, on the lawn, where it was hoped that a hyena would give him a rude awakening. For all practical purposes he could, therefore, be regarded as absent.
A certain beauty in the world is no mark of God's favor, said Mr. Huss. There is no beauty one may not balance by an equal ugliness. The warthog and the hyena, the tapeworm and the stinkhorn, are equally God's creations. Nothing you have said points to anything but a cold indifference towards us of this order in which we live. Beauty happens; it is not given. Pain, suffering, happiness; there is no heed. Only in the heart of man burns the fire of righteousness.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 329 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).