Crossword-Solution: INANITION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Inanition | n. | The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “INANITION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| STATE of emptiness | 1 answer |
| wasting of the body | 1 answer |
| wasting of the body from want of food | 1 answer |
| infirmity | 35 answers |
| Emptiness | 56 answers |
| exhaustion | 57 answers |
| Age | 64 answers |
| Lethargy | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INANITION (5)
That stillness, which struck casual observers more than anything else in his character and habit, and seemed so precisely like the rest of inanition, may have been the perfect balance of enormous antagonistic forces—positives and negatives in fine adjustment.
Even if the three Powers do not remove these gentlemen, their absurd and disastrous government must perish by itself of inanition.
The bishop's first idea was, that Mr Harding, if left to himself, would certainly starve,--not in the figurative sense in which so many of our ladies and gentlemen do starve on incomes from one to five hundred a year; not that he would be starved as regarded dress coats, port wine, and pocket-money; but that he would positively perish of inanition for want of bread.
Unfortunately, the mother succumbed after ninety hours, and in a month the intrauterine child died from inanition, but the child of extrauterine gestation thrived.
His was a darkness unbroken by a ray of thought or sensation, a dreamless inanition, a vast space of peace.
Quotes with INANITION (2)
It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate: and when our energies seem to demand a sustenance they cannot get--when our will strains after a path we may not follow--we need neither starve from inanition, not stand still in despair: we have but to seek another nourishment for the mind, as strong as the forbidden fruit it longe…
The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1993).