Crossword-Solution: INFLUENZA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Influenza | n. | An epidemic affection characterized by acute nasal catarrh, or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi, and usually accompanied by fever. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “INFLUENZA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Illness once called grippe | 1 answer |
| Something caught in the air | 1 answer |
| contagious viral disease causing headaches, muscle pains, and fever | 1 answer |
| viral complaint | 1 answer |
| Grippe | 2 answers |
| SPANISH grippe | 2 answers |
| DISEASE, type of | 110 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INFLUENZA (5)
After a while, the mi- crobe mutates itself into a benign chemical compound that no longer can copy itself and the influenza epidemic is over.
Wingfield told me that he has never known them more general or heavy—except when it has been quite an influenza.” “That has been a good deal the case, my dear; but not to the degree you mention.
Armiger says, the book’s in the air; one breathes it in like the influenza.” Glennard sat motionless, watching his wife.
The august establishment of Walpurgis and Nettlepink had lowered its prices for an entire week as a concession to trade observances, much as an Arch-duchess might protestingly contract an attack of influenza for the unsatisfactory reason that influenza was locally prevalent.
But if you've forgotten the time I went to the city and brought you sulphur and the Lord only knows what for your old spring when you'd run short and were laid up with influenza--" "Hush!" I exclaimed.
Quotes with INFLUENZA (3)
This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?""I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?""Yes," she said." That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.
Some historians subsequently said that the twentieth century actually started in 1914, when war broke out, because it was first war in history in which so many countries took part, in which so many people died and in which airships and airplanes flew and bombarded the rear and towns and civilians, and submarines sunk ships and artillery could lob shells ten or twelve kilometers. And the Germans invented gas and the English invented tanks and scientists discovered isotopes and…
The dancing sickness took place during the latter part of the fifteenth century. Bubonic plague--the black death--decimated Europe near the end of the fourteenth. Whooping cough near the end of the seventeenth, and the first known outbreaks of influenza near the end of the nineteenth. We've become so used to the idea of the flu--it seems almost like the common cold to us, doesn't it?--that no one but the historians seem to know that a hundred years ago it didn't exist.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2015).