Crossword-Solution: INSTINCT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Instinct | a. | Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life. |
| Instinct | a. | Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished. |
| Instinct | a. | Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method. |
| Instinct | a. | A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct. |
| Instinct | v. t. | To impress, as an animating power, or instinct. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
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greedy person
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Sentences with INSTINCT (5)
Tootles hated the idea of signing under such a man, but an instinct told him that it would be prudent to lay the responsibility on an absent person; and though a somewhat silly boy, he knew that mothers alone are always willing to be the buffer.
She was never very communicative about her own affairs, and when she came to the point, an instinct told her that about such things she and Marie would not understand one another.
Beside her, Oak now noticed a little calf about a day old, looking idiotically at the two women, which showed that it had not long been accustomed to the phenomenon of eyesight, and often turning to the lantern, which it apparently mistook for the moon, inherited instinct having as yet had little time for correction by experience.
There was always a prophetic instinct, a low whisper in my ear, that within no long period, and whenever a new change of custom should be essential to my good, change would come.
She has had no instruction in voice at all, and I shrink from handing her over to anybody; her own instinct about it has been so good.
Quotes with INSTINCT (3)
Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I hav…
Your kids pissing you off is an inborn instinct. It's nature's way of getting you to kick them out when they turn 18! Okaaay. ~sigh~ Due to the times, you can kick them out between the ages of 28-38. Can someone please dramatically reduce the cost of housing, already?~SHEESH~
There is something in the depths of our being that hungers for wholeness and finality. Because we are made for eternal life, we are made for an act that gathers up all the powers and capacities of our being and offers them simultaneously and forever to God. The blind spiritual instinct that tells us obscurely that our owns lives have a particular importance and purpose, and which urges us to find out our vocation, seeks in so doing to bring us to a decision that will dedicate…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1957–2022).