Crossword-Solution: IRRITANT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Irritant | a. | Rendering null and void; conditionally invalidating. |
| Irritant | a. | Irritating; producing irritation or inflammation. |
| Irritant | n. | That which irritates or excites. |
| Irritant | n. | Any agent by which irritation is produced; as, a chemical irritant; a mechanical or electrical irritant. |
| Irritant | n. | A poison that produces inflammation. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEATR
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greedy person
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Sentences with IRRITANT (5)
Lacking any knowledge of or interest in how networks work, and considering his access a God-given right, he is a major irritant to sysadmins, clogging up lines in order to reach new MUDs, following passed-on instructions on how to sneak his way onto Internet ("Wow! It's in America!") and complaining when he is not allowed to use busy routes.
Because they are spatially in a civilization to which they are morally and intellectually repugnant, they cannot but be as a foreign irritant to the body social.
When the children were growing up and in the crucial stage of adolescence, the father was like some ugly irritant to their souls.
The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.
Add to this, that he maintained the Native about his person as a counter-irritant against the gout, and all other vexations, mental as well as bodily; and the Native would appear to have earned his pay—which was not large.
Quotes with IRRITANT (3)
And life? Life itself? Was it perhaps only an infection, a sickening of matter? Was that which one might call the original procreation of matter only a disease, a growth produced by morbid stimulation of the immaterial? The first step toward evil, toward desire and death, was taken precisely then, when there took place that first increase in the density of the spiritual, that pathologically luxuriant morbid growth, produced by the irritant of some unknown infiltration; this, …
I thought I was getting away from politics for a while. But I now realise that the vuvuzela is to these World Cup blogs what Julius Malema is to my politics columns: a noisy, but sadly unavoidable irritant. With both Malema and the vuvuzela, their importance is far overstated. Malema: South Africa's Robert Mugabe? I think not. The vuvuzela: an archetypal symbol of 'African culture?' For African civilisation's sake, I seriously hope not. Both are getting far too much airtime t…
All that can best be expressed in words should be expressed in verse, but verse is a slow thing to create; nay, it is not really created: it is a secretion of the mind, it is a pearl that gathers round some irritant and slowly expresses the very essence of beauty and of desire that has lain long, potential and unexpressed, in the mind of the man who secretes it. God knows that this Unknown Country has been hit off in verse a hundred times... Milton does it so well in the Four…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1954–2022).